Sentences with phrase «pandemic alert level»

Despite the surge, the World Health Organization (WHO) hasn't yet raised its pandemic alert level to indicate that a global pandemic is under way.

In another signal that the world may be closer to an influenza pandemic, the World Health Organization tonight announced that it has upped the pandemic alert level from 3 to 4, signaling increased human - to - human spread of a virus with pandemic potential.

The fact that this virus has a sustained ability to pass between people has led the World Health Organization (WHO) to elevate its pandemic alert level to 4 (out of 6, the latter being a full - blown pandemic).

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Because of this spread, Angus Nicoll, head of ECDC's influenza program, said today that it's «inevitable» that WHO will raise the alert level from pandemic phase 5 to 6, and «it's just a question of when that will happen.»

Although the A (H1N1) virus has now spread to 76 countries and seems to be spreading briskly in Australia, the agency still has not moved its pandemic alert scale to 6, the highest level.

But the World Health Organization early this morning increased the alert level to Phase 4, indicating the likelihood of a pandemic has increased.