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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by austincheney on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:08PM (#22549252)
I found this article which claims The WHO's use of the term is arbitrary based upon the conditions at hand.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/11/21156325/coronavirus-pand...

I suspect The WHO declared this a pandemic, based upon the article, out of concern for what they perceive to be insufficient government activity.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by concerned_user on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:16PM (#22549357)
As I said there is probably no official WHO definition or criteria due to big economic impact of such declaration and it is decided on a case by case basis.

EDIT: I was wrong, here is the chart: https://www.who.int/influenza/resources/documents/pandemic_p...

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