Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by potiuper on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:09PM (#22549266)

Phase 6, the pandemic phase, is characterized by community level outbreaks in at least one other country [Italy|Iran] in a different WHO region [Europe|Eastern Mediterranean] in addition to Phase 5 that is characterized by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries [China & South Korea] in one WHO region [Western Pacific]. No threshold of cases or deaths triggers the community level definition and is left to discretion of the WHO.

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Re:Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says by hef19898 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:32PM (#22549563)

So the WHO has done everything right. It is the hallmark of professionalism to follow rules even under pressure. And the WHo is under a tremendous amount of pressure right now.

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