Name: Coronavirus outbreak: WHO official says virus not at stage to declare pandemic
Uploaded: 2020-03-17T02:40:17.000Z
Duration: 2 min 17 s
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a pandemic is is a unique situation which we believe that all citizens on the planet will likely be exposed to a virus within a defined period of time.

We could say that I said in previous press conferences.

If this was influenza, we would probably have called this as a pandemic by now.

But what we've seen with this virus is that with containment measures with robust public health response, the course of this epidemic of these multiple epidemics can be significantly altered.

It is unhelpful to do that when you're still trying to contain a disease.

A pandemic is also a word that may be attractive at a global level, ah, to describe an event.

But it's not necessarily so if you if you're one of the two billion people living in countries with weaker health systems, because what's in that sense you're accepting, as I said to my colleague from Mexico, is that you now are entering of power phase of mitigation on that you're giving up on the possibility of containing and slowing down the virus, so Pandemic has a colloquial term.

We've seen the pandemic of obesity or the pandemic of HIV or all of these words that are used.

If we say there's a pandemic of Corona verse were essentially accepting that every human on the planet will be exposed to the virus.

The data does not support that as yet on China have clearly shown that that's not necessarily the natural outcome of this event.

If we take action if we move quickly, if we do the things we need to do, that does not need to be the history of this event.

But if we don't take action, if we don't move, if we don't prepare, if we don't get ready, that may be a future that we have to experience and we have to endure.

 So much of the future of this epidemic is not in the hands of the virus. 