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Breaking: Coronavirus declared global health emergency

9:49 CAT | 30 Jan 2020

Coronavirus is declared global emergency by World Health Organisation as outbreak continues to spread outside China.

“The main reason is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, making the announcement at a press conference in Geneva.

The concern is that it could spread to countries with weaker health systems.

“Let me be clear, this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in China,” Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO director, said in Geneva Thursday.

The outbreak is unprecedented, Ghebreyesus added, but it has been met with an unprecedented response. The WHO director praised China for its efforts in containing the outbreak and the country’s transparency the last few weeks.

The death toll is now at 170 in China.

The WHO said there had been 98 cases in 18 counties outside of China, but no deaths.

There have been eight cases of human-to-human infection – in Germany, Japan, Vietnam and the United States.