{"id":84944,"date":"2020-02-29T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13991"},"modified":"2020-02-29T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T10:21:43","slug":"explained-coronavirus-in-47-countries-but-is-it-a-pandemic-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-coronavirus-in-47-countries-but-is-it-a-pandemic-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Coronavirus in 47 countries, but is it a pandemic yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The United States Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has said the world is on the cusp of a coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Recently, WHO has declared COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Pandemic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pandemic comes from the Greek word pandemos which means everybody.<\/li><li>A pandemic is defined as an epidemic occurring worldwide or over a very wide area crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.<\/li><li>However,there is no specific number of countries that a disease must touch for WHO to classify it as a pandemic.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Difference between Pandemic and Epidemic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Epidemic refers to an event in which a disease is actively spreading. Usually,this is an outbreak that has grown out of control but is often within one country or location.&nbsp;<\/li><li>On the other hand, pandemic is an epidemic on a far greater geographic scale that affects a much larger number of people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous cases of Pandemic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2009, the WHO had declared a global pandemic of novel influenza A (H1N1), commonly known as swine flu.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The United States Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has said the world is on the cusp of a coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic. Facts: Recently, WHO has declared COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. About Pandemic: Pandemic comes from the Greek word pandemos which means everybody. A pandemic is defined as an epidemic occurring worldwide or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-coronavirus-in-47-countries-but-is-it-a-pandemic-yet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: Coronavirus in 47 countries, but is it a pandemic yet?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2028,1079],"class_list":["post-84944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704810491},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}