WHO declares coronavirus pandemic
by Sarah Boseley Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#50JFW)
Director general says his organisation is 'deeply concerned " by alarming levels of inaction'
The world is now in the grip of a coronavirus pandemic, the director general of the World Health Organization has said, as he expressed deep concern about "alarming levels of inaction" in the fight against the spread of the disease.
In the past two weeks, the number of cases outside China has increased 13-fold, said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the number of affected countries has tripled. There are 118,000 cases in 114 countries and 4,291 people have lost their lives.
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