The World Health Organization declares coronavirus a global epidemic

The World Health Organization announced that the Coronavirus is a global epidemic now, after more than 118,000 people in 114 countries are infected, and 4291 people dead, due to coronavirus is expected, with numbers expected to increase, especially in Italy and Iran.

"We are very concerned about the levels of prevalence, frightening severity and alarming levels of inaction, and this is why we have described Covid 19, the official name of the coronavirus, as an epidemic," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanum Gebresos told reporters in Geneva.

"Italy and Iran are on the frontline, and they are suffering, but other countries will be in this situation very soon," Tidros added. Iran recorded 354 deaths, while deaths rose to 827 in Italy. Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the emergency program, said that the use of the word epidemic does not change the response of the WHO. Globalism .