For reference, it took 30 months for MERS to infect 1,000 patients, while SARS reached that milestone in around four months. The new coronavirus, by contrast, spread to at least 1,000 people in just 48 days. And in early March 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 to have created a pandemic – meaning the virus had rapidly advanced across the globe.
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