The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread.
An epidemic refers to an uptick in the spread of a disease within a specific community. By contrast, the WHO defines a pandemic as global spread of a new disease, though the specific threshold for meeting that criteria is fuzzy. The declaration refers to the spread of a disease, rather than the severity of the illness it causes.
Our trip will be postponed indefinitely until the pandemic stops.
Simon
Agape D.C.
Source: https://time.com/5791661/who-coronavirus-pandemic-declaration/