WHO has declared the Coronavirus a global pandemic

WHO officials have now declared the novel Coronavirus a global pandemic.

• This is a huge differentiation from their initial weariness of doing such.
• The virus has killed more than 4k people worldwide, and there are more than 117k+ cases reported worldwide.
• Americans are still scrambling to stockpile items and food as the virus has now hit America alike other countries.

At a press conference on Wednesday, the organisation released the 1st of probably many statements.

“We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” the WHO’s chief said on Wednesday doing a full reversal of a previous refusal to declare it as such.

“In the past two weeks the number of cases outside China has increased thirteenfold and the number of affected countries has tripled,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. “In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths and the number of affected countries to climb even higher.”

“We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” he said, just before declaring the pandemic. “We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear.” 

“We can not say this loudly enough or clearly enough or often enough: All countries can still change the course of this pandemic,” he said. “Some countries are struggling with a lack of capacity. Some countries are struggling with a lack of resources. Some countries are struggling with a lack of resolve.”