Today, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. A pandemic as defined by A Dictionary of Epideiology as " an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people." An epidemic as defined "an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected" in a region. At a briefing in Geneva, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared: " This is the first pandemic caused by coronavirus. "WHO has been in full response mode since we were notified of the first cases. "And we have called every day for countries to take urgent and aggressive action. We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear. "In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tri...
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