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WHO declares virus crisis a pandemic

By J. KEATEN, M. CHENG the stops. "We have called
and J. LEICESTER every day for countries to
Associated Press take urgent and aggressive
GENEVA (AP) — Expressing action. We have rung the
alarm both about mounting alarm bell loud and clear,"
infections and inadequate said Tedros Adhanom Ghe-
government responses, the breyesus, the WHO chief.
World Health Organization "All countries can still
declared Wednesday that change the course of this
the global coronavirus cri- pandemic. If countries
sis is now a pandemic but detect, test, treat, isolate,
added that it's not too late trace and mobilize their
for countries to act. people in the response," he
By reversing course and said. "We are deeply con-
using the charged word cerned by the alarming
"pandemic" that it had pre- levels of spread and sever-
viously shied away from, ity and by the alarming lev-
the U.N. health agency els of inaction." A man and a girl on a scooter are backdropped by a Lombardy region campaign advertising
sought to shock lethargic reading in Italian ‘ Coronavirus let’s stop it together ‘, at the Porta Nuova business district in Milan,
Wednesday, March 11, 2020.
countries into pulling out all Continued on Page 2 Associated Press