Widespread coronavirus activity that had jumped country borders and began to threaten economies and daily life caused the World Health Organization to declare an official pandemic one year ago on March 11, 2020.
Widespread coronavirus activity that had jumped country borders and began to threaten economies and daily life caused the World Health Organization to declare an official pandemic one year ago on March 11, 2020. At the time, there had been 125,865 confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide that caused 4,615 deaths. Now, there have been 117 million coronavirus cases across the globe and 2.6 million people have died. In Massachusetts one year ago, public health officials had reported a mere 95 infected residents with eight in the hospital. Those figures have also ballooned to 562,000 infected Bay State residents and 16,000 deaths. “We have called every day for countries to take urgent and aggressive action.
