Coronavirus classified as a pandemic, WHO chief says

Muscat: The World Health Organization (WHO) sees the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

“We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic,” he told a news conference.