The Director-General of the World Health Organisaton (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at the UN health agency headquarters in Geneva that cases outside China “could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire.”
Ghebreyesus has reportedly warned that while almost all of the confirmed coronavirus cases are in China, the outbreak constitutes a “very grave threat” for the rest of the world.
As of Monday night, China’s National Health Commission reported that a total of 42,638 cases had been confirmed in the country, with 1,016 deaths.
