pandemic alert
Global disease notification
A pandemic alert is an official warning that a disease outbreak has the potential to spread globally or is already doing so.
Health authorities issue pandemic alerts at various levels to signal escalating risk: The WHO raised the pandemic alert to its highest level.
The term gained wide currency during the H1N1 and COVID-19 outbreaks.
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- health emergencyAcute condition needing care
- lockdownEnforced restriction on movement
- stay homeNot go anywhere
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
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- alertsalarm, warning, notification, push notifications, tornado watch
- health alertshealth emergency, disease outbreak, quarantine order, food recall, drug recall
- alert levelsDEFCON, elevated, guarded, low, moderate