GENEVA, Feb 3 — World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today there was no need for measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” in trying to halt the spread of a coronavirus that has killed 361 people in China. “We call on all...
Monday, 03 Feb 2020 08:58 PM MYT
“We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based and consistent,” Tedros told the WHO executive board, reiterating his message from last week when he declared an international emergency. “Because of this strategy and it weren’t for China, the number of cases outside China would have been very much higher,” he said.
China’s delegate took the floor at the WHO Executive Board and denounced measures by “some countries” that have denied entry to people holding passports issued in Hubei province - at the center of the outbreak - and to deny visas and cancel flights.
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