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reaperducer on March 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

I believe I read somewhere that it had to be declared an epidemic on two continents for it to be called a pandemic.

TeMPOraL on March 11, 2020 [–]

I've heard they were counting off countries with cases. My wife told me the other day that she read that "4 more countries with coronavirus and WHO will call it pandemic".

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