Nobody can be fully prepared to a pandemic. Of course there are signs of it, the scientists can predict, alarming speechescan be made. But there are always alarmist people around, maybe that is why sometimes even the most serious warnings may be notconsidered by the authorities on time. The first patients may be lost without a proper diagnosis. When everybody realizes that there maybe a big problem in the horizon, sometimes it is too late. That is why it is very important to monitor contagious diseases and follow thewarnings and releases of national and international disease control centers and other related organizations. China celebrated Lunar NewYear with more than 40 thousand families on the 18 of January 2020. Nobody seem to be expecting this emerging new viral pneumoniaoutbreak appeared in Wuhan, in the last days of 2019, will break the chains and turn out to be a pandemic! But maybe this time it was nottoo late. There were four important pandemics within the last century: Spanish Flu, Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu and Swine Flu. Each leftdifferent story behind. Millions of people had infected, hundreds, thousands of people died. This time, the Modern World had differenttools to limit the SARS CoV2 outbreak. The national and international institutions of our globe were all communicating and takingprecautions in a very fast manner than ever. However, this time, unexpectedly, the SARS-CoV-2 contagion was also faster. Besides theinternational organizations like WHO, UNESCO and UNICEF, the roles of local authorities, health ministries, disease control centers,health protection agencies, research centers and universities are all very important in different operational levels to control and survivefrom the pandemic. This paper will review the immediate response of different national and international institutions and authoritiesto COVID-19 pandemic.