On the 11th March 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO), responsible for assessing the global developments of COVID-19, characterised the outbreak as a pandemic¹. As of 31st March 2020, it is reported that the pandemic has affected more than 179 countries, with more than 823,000 cases confirmed worldwide².
WHO confidently write that ‘all countries can still change the course of this pandemic’, and in order to supress and control the virus, it advises that countries should take measures to ‘detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and mobilise their people in the response’³ to the global emergency.
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