As WHO declares Coronavirus a pandemic, what's next for people and govts?



The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Coronavirus a pandemic on Wednesday. But the question is will this declaration bring any change in the ways the nations are working to combat the novel coronavirus infection?
But first, what is a pandemic?
A WHO website defines pandemic as a “worldwide spread of a new disease.”
This means, irrespective of how deadly or severe the disease or infection is, to become a pandemic, it has to spread far enough around the world.
The last time a pandemic occurred was with H1N1 or Swine flu in 2009, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across the globe according to experts.
In case you are thinking about the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak, 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak and the 2016 Zika outbreak were not pandemics they did not impact as many people as Coronavirus despite spreading in more than one country. Read More

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