BREAKING: Coronavirus confirmed as pandemic by World Health Organization
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the coronavirus outbreak is now pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general, announced this on Wednesday during a media briefing.
“In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID19 outside China has increased 13-fold & the number of affected countries has tripled. There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, & 4,291 people have lost their lives,” he said.