#COVID19: A global joint response

On 11 March 2020, WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic, after the number of cases surpassed 100,000 outside China and rapidly spread throughout the globe.

By then, “Of the 118,000 cases reported globally in 114 countries, more than 90 percent of cases are in just four countries, and two of those – China and the Republic of Korea - have significantly declining epidemics. 81 countries have not reported any cases, and 57 countries have reported 10 cases or less”, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom, stated.