Health Desk- 5th
Feb, 2020: The World Health Organization on Tuesday said that the outbreak
of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has spread from China to two dozen
countries, does not yet constitute a “pandemic”.
“Currently we are not in a pandemic,” Sylvie Briand, head of
WHO’s Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness division, told reporters in Geneva.
Instead, she said, “we are at the phase where it is an
epidemic with multiple foci.”
The disease has killed more than 425 people and infected a
further 20,000 in China, nearly all of them in central Hubei province -- the
epicentre of the outbreak -- and spread to two-dozen countries since it emerged
in December.
Briand said that while there is rapid spread of transmission
in Hubei, outside the province there are mainly “spillover cases” with sporadic
clusters of transmission.
However, authorities in China have taken dramatic measures
to halt transmission, while other affected countries have put in place steps to
rein in the spread.
Courtesy: Afp, Geneva
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