Proactive measure: Patients who displayed mild symptoms of Covid-19 doing exercises at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan, China. — AFP
Beijing: The World Health Organization has warned against a global overreaction to the Covid-19 epidemic following panic-buying, event cancellations and concerns about cruise ship travel, as China’s official death toll neared 1,900.
More than 72,000 people have now been infected in China and hundreds more abroad, although the WHO stressed the disease has infected a “tiny” proportion of people outside its epicentre and the mortality rate remains relatively low.The coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak is threatening to put a dent in the global economy, with China paralysed by vast quarantine measures and major firms warning it could damage bottom lines.
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