Pandemic Panic What's the current situation? The highly infectious Coronavirus (or COVID-19) outbreak in early 2020 has quickly turned into a global crisis. As of March 1", the World Health Organization (WHO has officially increased the risk of the assessment of the Coronavirus to "very high" at the global scale, as more than 89,100 people have been infected across nearly 60 countries, resulting in more than 3,000 deaths