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WHO declares coronavirus a pandemic
By EUobserver
The World Health Organisation, a UN body, on Wednesday officially declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. "This is the first pandemic caused by coronavirus," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It had initially in January declared the outbreak as a global health emergency. The virus has so far killed over 4,000 people and spread across some 114 countries.