WHO Calls COVID-19 a Pandemic
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe Director-General used the word at the media briefing of 11 March 2020, the date the WHO's[2] own COVID-19 timeline carries.
Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.
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