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. 2020 Mar 19;91(1):157-160.
doi: 10.23750/abm.v91i1.9397.

WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic

Domenico Cucinotta  1 , Maurizio Vanelli  2
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WHO Declares COVID-19 a Pandemic

Domenico Cucinotta et al. Acta Biomed. .

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic (1). At a news briefing , WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted that over the past 2 weeks, the number of cases outside China increased 13-fold and the number of countries with cases increased threefold. Further increases are expected. He said that the WHO is "deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction," and he called on countries to take action now to contain the virus. "We should double down," he said. "We should be more aggressive." [...].

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The author declares that he has no commercial associations (e.g. consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangement etc.) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article

Comment in

  • COVID-19 and maternal pre-eclampsia: A synopsis.
    Abbas AM, Ahmed OA, Shaltout AS. Abbas AM, et al. Scand J Immunol. 2020 Sep;92(3):e12918. doi: 10.1111/sji.12918. Epub 2020 Jul 3. Scand J Immunol. 2020. PMID: 32542883 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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