Coronavirus: What is a pandemic and why use the term now?

Coronavirus: What is a pandemic and why use the term now?

The coronavirus outbreak has been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is a term that the organisation had refrained from using before now. A pandemic describes a disease that is spreading between people in multiple countries around the world at the same time.
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