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Explainer: Why is coronavirus now a pandemic and what happens next?

Devotees wear protective face masks, to protect themselves from the coronavirus, while praying at Lungshan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, March 12, 2020. [Reuters]

After two and a half months since the outbreak began, the World Health Organization Wednesday declared novel coronavirus a pandemic.

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