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WHO declares China coronavirus that's killed 171 a global health emergency
Health and Science
WHO declares China coronavirus that’s killed 171 a global health emergency
Published Thu, Jan 30 20202:43 PM ESTUpdated Moments Ago
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
@BerkeleyJr
William Feuer
@WillFOIA
Key Points
The World Health Organization said the fast-spreading coronavirus that’s infected more than 8,200 across the world is a global health emergency.
The rare designation will help the international agency mobilize financial and political support to contain the outbreak.
The rare designation will help the international agency mobilize financial and political support to contain the outbreak.
The World Health Organization said the fast-spreading coronavirus that’s infected more than 8,200 across the world is a global health emergency — a rare designation that helps the international agency mobilize financial and political support to contain the outbreak.
The announcement comes just hours after the U.S. confirmed its first human-to-human transmission of the virus, which has killed at least 171 people in China and has now spread to at least 18 other countries.
Since emerging less than a month ago in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus has infected more people than the 2003 SARS epidemic, which sickened roughly 8,100 people across the globe over nine months. As of Thursday, there are at least eight cases in four countries, outside of China, of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus.
“Over the past few weeks we have witnessed the emergence of a previously unknown pathogen that has escalated into an unprecedented outbreak,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference at the organization’s Geneva headquarters on Thursday. “We must act together now to limit the spread.”
WHO defines a global health emergency, also known as a “public health emergency of international concern,” as an “extraordinary event” that is “serious, unusual or unexpected.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/who-declares-china-coronavirus-a-global-health-emergency.html
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