Timeline Of WHO’s Role In COVID-19 Pandemic
This picture taken on April 24, 2020 shows a sign of the World Health Organization in Geneva next to their headquarters, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus.The World Health Organization has been at the heart of the battle against the new coronavirus since the first reported outbreak in China.
January 4 — The WHO on social media reported a cluster of pneumonia cases “with no deaths”, in Wuhan. A day later, it published its first “Disease Outbreak News” destined for scientists and public health specialists on the new virus. January 20, 21 — WHO experts from China and the western Pacific region went on a brief field visit to Wuhan.
January 28 — A WHO delegation travelled to Beijing, led by Tedros, who agreed with the Chinese government that an international team of scientists would be dispatched to China.January 30 — The WHO declared COVID-19 to be “a public health emergency of international concern”. March 11 — The WHO designated COVID-19 as a pandemic. At the time, 90 percent of cases were declared in just four countries, according to the WHO, with 81 countries reporting no cases at all, and 57 countries reporting up to 10 cases.April 9 — The WHO publishes a chronology of its statements in response to criticism that it had been slow to sound the alarm.
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