China News Agency, March 12th. Director-General of the World Health Organization Tan Desai said on the 11th that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has the characteristics of a pandemic.
"We will not use the word" pandemic "lightly, and describing the current situation as a pandemic has not changed WHO's assessment of the new crown virus threat, nor has it changed what WHO and all countries are doing Strategies to control disease epidemics.
Tan Desai emphasized that a pandemic caused by a coronavirus is the first in history, but it will also be the first time in history that a pandemic can be controlled.