Covid-19 is 10 times more deadly than swine flu: WHO April 13, 2020 at 06:16AM

The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, calling for control measures to be lifted "slowly". "We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, 10 times more deadly than the 2009 flu pandemic," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.