Five years ago, the World Health Organization announced Covid-19 had become a pandemic - a moment when the world finally woke ...

A US judge has held China accountable for concealing the Covid-19 pandemic and hoarding PPE, directing the Chinese government ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, was declared a national emergency in the United States by ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took two pens from his jacket, adjusted his glasses, looked round the room and read his bombshell ...

Cases of the novel coronavirus were first detected in China in December 2019. As of February 2025, there have been 7,087,718 ...

The Director-General accepted the advice of the Emergency Committee and declared Covid-19 a PHEIC on Jan. 30, 2020. The Committee continues to meet every 3 months to review the case and reissue ...

The world began to realise the impending catastrophe five years ago when the World Health Organisation declared that COVID-19 had spread to a pandemic, reports RTE. Five weeks prior, the WHO had ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization said Covid-19 was a pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was already spreading around the world — and changing the world: health, science and society.

When WHO declared on May 5, 2023, the end of Covid-19 as a PHEIC, the data on its coronavirus dashboard, which had collated ...

The PHEIC lasted until May 5 ... "We have therefore made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterised as a pandemic." Veteran correspondent John Zarocostas was sitting three seats along ...

The PHEIC lasted until May 5 ... "We have therefore made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterised as a pandemic." Veteran correspondent John Zarocostas was sitting three seats along ...