NSTworld: “With 99 per cent of cases in China, this remains very much an emergency for that country, but one that holds a very grave threat for the rest of the world,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The WHO is holding a conference in Geneva on combatting the virus as Beijing struggles to contain a disease that has now infected more than 42,000 and reached some 25 countries.
The death toll has now reached 1,016, although the mortality rate remains relatively low at 2.4 percent. Of those infected, five were hospitalised in France, five in Britain and one on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The biggest cluster of cases outside China is aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship moored off Japan, where 135 people have been positively diagnosed.
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