Covid-19 not yet pandemic — WHO chief
As new cases of the ongoing Covid-19 are being reported in more countries, health experts have called on countries to get prepared for a possibleThe possibility of the disease attaining a pandemic status is considered due to the fast spreading nature of the disease.
Also, about 22888 people had been discharged from hospital after recovery. 5299 people discharged in Hubei, 8171 people in Wuhan. WHO in January had pronounced the disease a public health emergency of international concern, however, the new trends in the outbreak seems to be questioning if the disease has not gotten to a pandemic status.
However, the world is being scared of the disease being transported to Africa because African health systems would be ill-equipped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. Mr Ghebreyesus said there is a lot of speculation about whether these increases mean that this epidemic has now become a pandemic.
The WHO chief said” for the moment, we are not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this virus, and we are not witnessing large-scale severe disease or death.
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