World Health Organization (WHO) Declaires Coronavirus a World Health Emergency
Updated on February 8th – the Numbers have reached in the tens of thouands now, still mostly in china. 34,886 Globally with 724 deaths from this epidemic. Check out the stats below:???
After the CDC confirmed the first ever person to person transmission of the deadly coronavirus in the United States, The W.H.O. also declaired it a worldwide health emergency, Fox News reported:
Fox61 News – The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, after an emergency committee reconvened Thursday in Geneva.
Last week, the organization said the virus did not yet constitute the emergency declaration. But with rising numbers and evidence of person-to-person transmission in a handful of cases outside of China, WHO leadership called the committee back together due to the “potential for a much larger outbreak,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters earlier this week.
WHO defines a public health emergency of international concern as “an extraordinary event” that constitutes a “public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease” and “to potentially require a coordinated international response.” Previous emergencies have included Ebola, Zika and H1N1.
Read the story about the first person-to-person transmission in the US below:
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