WHO characterizes COVID-19 as a pandemic

Speaking at the daily COVID-19 media briefing from WHO HQ on 11 March 2020, Dr Tedros, WHO Director-General said: “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified accepta