Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - As the Coronavirus outbreak is now labeled a global pandemic and multiple higher education institutions decided to shift to online classes, News Radio 930 WBEN is hosting a virtual town hall discussion on the issue Thursday night from 7pm to 10pm.
The special three hour broadcast will be fact-based discussion of the Coronsvirus outbreak with a panel of in-studio medical and public health professionals. The forum will allow for a clear dialogue on the issues and concerns surrounding Coronavirus and its impact on the people of Buffalo and Western New York.
If you have questions you would like addressed during the forum, please submit via email by sending to newsroom@wben.com.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Wednesday announced SUNY and CUNY institutions would shift to online classes effective March 19th.
Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the U.N. agency, said the WHO is "deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity" of the outbreak. He also expressed concern about "the alarming levels of inaction."
"We have, therefore, made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic," he said at a briefing in Geneva.
"All countries can still change the course of this pandemic. If countries detect, test, treat, isolate, trace and mobilize their people in the response," Tedros said.
