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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation’s director-general has declared COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) a pandemic.
Globally there are more than 11300 cases of COVID-19 across 114 countries with 4012 deaths.
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“We have therefore made the assessment that #COVID19 can be characterized as a pandemic”-@DrTedros #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/JqdsM2051A
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 11, 2020
The only other current pandemic is HIV/AIDS.
2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) were the other pandemics of the modern world.
“In the past two weeks, the number of cases of #COVID19 outside 🇨🇳 has increased 13-fold & the number of affected countries has tripled.
There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, & 4,291 people have lost their lives”-@DrTedros #coronavirus
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 11, 2020
Current Scenario in Canada
Currently in Canada, the total positive COVID-19 cases stand at 101, with 39 cases in British Columbia, 14 in Alberta, 41 in Ontario and 7 in Quebec. Of these 101, 9 cases, 4 in B.C. and 5 in Ontario were fully resolved, with each of those patients having two consecutive negative tests at least 24 hours apart.
British Columbia recorded Canada’s first fatality from COVID-19.
