Window of opportunity to contain Covid-19 closing, warns WHO
People at a temporary hospital in the Tazihu Gymnasium in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, yesterday. The WHO says it is 'worrisome' that some Covid-19 cases do not have clear epidemiological links, such as travel history to China or contact with a confirmed case. – EPA pic, February 22, 2020.
THE World Health Organisation has said that the window of opportunity to contain wider worldwide spread of the Covid-19 epidemic is narrowing, urging the international community to act quickly before it completely closes, reported the Xinhua news agency. “The window of opportunity may be closing,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a daily briefing.
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