Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Here's what else happened on that day.

Wednesday marks six years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. COVID might not be top of mind for most people right now, but it's still out there. March 11, 2020 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named a virus spreading from Wuhan, China, COVID-19. On Feb. 11, 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes innovations around the world including repurposing drugs, traditional medicines and developing new therapies in the search for potential treatments for ...

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has announced an official name of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread to two dozen other countries: COVID-19. "Under agreed ...

JOHANNESBURG -- The coronavirus could "smolder" in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent, the World Health Organization has warned. The virus is spreading in Africa, but so ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) scientific advisory group on Friday released a report on the origins of COVID-19, concluding that available evidence suggests the deadly pandemic was caused by ...

Humanitarian crises, including health emergencies affect men and women differently. As COVID-19 continues to spread in Africa, there are concerns over its impact on women and girls, with ...

Joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before ...

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. (WHO photo) The World Health Organization declared ...