March 11, 2020: The day everything changed
The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested ...
The Peninsula14d
Five years ago, WHO's pandemic call shook world into action
Geneva: Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic -- a moment when ...
RTÉ Ireland14d
Five years since WHO's pandemic call shook world into action
Five years ago, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic - a moment when the world finally woke ...
Opinion
Dealing with the next fatal pandemic
Five years ago, the World Health Organization held a press briefing in Geneva to declare the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In a prime-time address that same night, President Trump reassured the ...
Five years ago, WHO's COVID pandemic declaration alerted world to unfolding disaster
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took two pens from his jacket, adjusted his glasses, looked round the room and read his bombshell ...
The Victoria Advocate15d
Five years ago, WHO's pandemic call shook world into action
Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic -- a moment ... lower room at the WHO's headquarters in Geneva. The emergency ops hub was being ...
Couriermail14d
Five years ago, WHO's pandemic call shook world into action
The March 11 press conference was scheduled for 5:00pm (1600 GMT) in the Strategic Health Operations Centre (SHOC) lower room at the WHO's headquarters in Geneva ... The Covid-19 pandemic upended ...