Question

why is covid-19 called pendemic​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Announcing the declaration in March, Ghebreyesus said the WHO did not use the word pandemic lightly or carelessly because if it was misused, it would lead to unreasonable fear. 

Up to that point, Covid-19 was described as an epidemic. An epidemic is the high spread of a disease within a specific community or area, and a pandemic refers to the global spread of a new disease.

At the start of the outbreak, Covid-19 was mostly confined to China and it was therefore referred to as an epidemic, but as it spread to more and more regions, it became a pandemic. 



Pandemic, therefore, refers to the reach of, specifically, a new virus, and not necessarily the intensity of it. 

The WHO has not defined exactly what the threshold is for a pandemic declaration. 

The United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the word pandemic is used when viruses "are able to infect people easily and spread from person to person in an efficient and sustained way" in various places around the world.

Answer 2

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• ❥The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020