The World Health Organisation has today declared that Coronavirus is a pandemic, with 118,000 cases of COVID-19 in 14 countries

A pandemic is the “worldwide spread of a new disease,” according to the WHO. There’s no cut-and-dry criteria for what reaches the level of pandemic and what does not, and there is no threshold of cases or deaths that triggers the definition. Generally, though, it says more about a disease’s spread than its severity.

This has been a long time coming as Coronavirus was first classed as a public health emergency on the 30th January by the WHO, but they’ve been reluctant to call it a Pandemic in fear of mass and unnecessary panic.

More to come….