Geneva, Mar 11 (AFP) The new coronavirus outbreak can now be characterised as a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.

"COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.

"We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus." (AFP)

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