The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic and scolded unnamed countries for what it called alarming inaction to battle the virus. WHO said COVID-19 was unknown to world health officials just three months ago but its aggressive nature has romped across carelessly lazy countries to infect more and 121,000 people in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and US. “In the past two weeks the number of cases outside China has increased thirteenfold and the number of affected countries has tripled,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. “In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths and the number of affected countries to climb even higher,” Tedros said several countries have demonstrated the ability to suppress and control the outbreak, but he accused other world leaders of failing to act quickly enough or drastically enough to contain the spread.
