Deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, WHO chief said

Deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, WHO chief said

Deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, WHO chief said

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak can now be characterised as a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.

“We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva. “We have, therefore, made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic."

"We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus," he said.