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Several ministries are in charge with limiting the impact of the coronavirus "pandemic" and the Government has issued an emergency ordinance to purchase, as a matter of urgency, the necessary equipment during such crisis situations, Interim Vice Prime Minister Raluca Turcan has stated on Tuesday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) doesn't use a procedure to declare a pandemic, however the COVID-19 outbreak remains an urgent situation at international level, a WHO spokesman mentioned on Monday.
"There is no official category (for a pandemic)," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said.
"WHO does not use the old phasing system that some people may be familiar with from 2009. Under the IHR (International Health Regulations), WHO has declared a public health emergency of international concern," he added.
The fear regarding a coronavirus pandemic has been increasing since Monday, after the sudden rise in the number of new cases of infection reported in Iran, Italy and South Korea, although China eased the travel restrictions in several areas, including in Beijing, in the context in which the new infections rates decreased.
