Coronavirus spreading outside China could spark ‘bigger fire’: WHO says

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (APP): The head of the World Health Organization has said spread of coronavirus cases outside China could be “the spark that becomes a bigger fire” and that governments must continue to treat containment of the disease as a priority. “Our objective remains containment,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference in Geneva on Monday. “We call on all countries to use the window of opportunity we have to prevent a bigger fire.” Most cases of the disease outside China have been people who had just spent time there or others who came into contact … Continue reading Coronavirus spreading outside China could spark ‘bigger fire’: WHO says