WASHINGTON (AN) — The global coronavirus pandemic reached a harrowing milestone on Thursday as infections surpassed 1 million and deaths exceeded 52,000, prompting governments to put half the world in lockdown amid economic collapse.
It was only on March 7 that the World Health Organization marked the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 exceeded 100 000. Four days later, WHO took the drastic step of declaring the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic — the worldwide spread of a new disease — marking the first time a coronavirus gained that distinction.
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