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The UN health agency has called a new round of crisis talks to decide whether the coronavirus outbreak constitutes an international emergency. The body said it “regrets” previously calling the virus risk “moderate.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to convene its expert committee again on Thursday to discuss whether to declare a global health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak.
The disease has killed more than 130 people and infected 6,000 more since it was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has just returned from China, said it was necessary to call another meeting — the third in a week — because of the virus’ spread beyond China.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus✔@DrTedrosI have decided to reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on the new #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) tomorrow to advise me on whether the current outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
