World Health Organization (WHO) is now worsening its risk assessment of the coronavirus to a “very high” on the global level. The virus has already spread to at least 48 countries besides its hotbed, China.
“We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told media at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
As of Friday, 4,351 cases, including 67 deaths, have been registered across 48 countries outside of China. While several nations are experiencing “linked epidemics of COVID-19,” the majority of the coronavirus cases “can still be traced to known contacts or clusters of cases.”
