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COVID-19 is officially a pandemic — the first to be caused by a coronavirus, the WHO* declared on Mar 11.
Calling the pandemic “a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations [UN]”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted that “COVID-19 is killing people, as well as attacking the real economy at its core – trade, supply chains, businesses, [and] jobs.” 1
Fallouts from the pandemic are of an unparalleled scale — cascading human suffering, plunging economy globally, and turning people’s lives upside down.