World must consider coronavirus 'public enemy number one' - WHO


  • World
  • Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization asked countries to be "as aggressive as possible" in fighting the newly named COVID-19 coronavirus on Tuesday.

"If the world doesn't want to wake up and consider the virus as public enemy number one, I don't think we will learn from our lessons," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva.

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