WHO declares that coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic

By NICOLE WINFIELD, COLLEEN BARRY and JOHN LEICESTER
ROME  — Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the U.N. agency, said the WHO is “deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity” of the outbreak. He also expressed concern about “the alarming levels of inaction.”
“We have, therefore,