WHO declares coronavirus pandemic in the world: the epicenter of the epidemic – Europe, became the new China

The spread of the Covid-2019 coronavirus in the world has become a global pandemic, said Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus, Director General of this Agency at the UN, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11.

A pandemic in Greek means an entire nation, a global epidemic characterized by the spread of infection throughout a country or group of countries, sometimes around the world.

“Right now, the epicenter of the coronavirus has moved to Europe, which has become the new China,” said Dr Tedros Adhan. There are a lot of people coming back and forth from Europe who are now starting to spread this infection around the world.

The total number of new coronavirus infections worldwide is 118,000 people in 114 countries. According to the WHO, 4,291 people died.

The head of the UN agency said WHO was "deeply concerned by the alarming levels of coronavirus spread and the severity of its effects as outbreaks continue to spiral out of control in Italy and Iran."

The epidemic in China, where it began in January, began to slow in March. Europe is now the centre of the epidemic.

The 11 countries most affected by the coronavirus (sorted by the number of people infected on Wednesday morning, according to Hopkins University):

China: 80,778 coronavirus cases; 3,158 deaths
Italy: 10,149 cases, 631 deaths
Iran: 8,042 cases, 291 deaths
South Korea: 7,755 coronavirus cases, 60 deaths
Germany: 1’296 cases, 2 deaths
Japan: 1,264 cases, 19 deaths (including 696 cases on the Diamond Princess)
Spain: 1’204 coronavirus cases, 28 deaths
France: 1’116 cases, 30 deaths
USA: 1000 coronavirus cases, 31 deaths;
UK: 382 infected, 6 deaths
Netherlands: 382 coronavirus cases, 4 deaths
In Russia, 28 cases of coronavirus infection were registered, 25 in Russians who returned from Italy, 2 in Chinese citizens, 1 in an Italian tourist.

Source: tourprom