Six months ago, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. How has the situation changed since then?

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Six months ago, the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. How has the situation changed since then?
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On 11 March, the World Health Organisation declared the deadly coronavirus a pandemic. Six months on the world is a very different place.

The World Health Organisation six months ago officially declared the deadly coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.

Today the United States is the world’s hardest-hit country, while China - the original epicentre of the virus - has long faded out of the top ten. But over the following months, the United States would rapidly overtake the rest of the world in virus cases. It is one of only four countries to record over one million cases, followed by India, Brazil and Russia.

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