WHO and COVID-19 Press Conference: 2-28-20
February 28th, 2020CNBC: “World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference Friday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 83,700 and killed at least 2,859 across the world so far.
Named COVID-19, the virus has shuttered commerce across much of China and is hitting company earnings, global stock markets and manufacturing across the world. WHO officials declared the virus a global health emergency last month, while urging the public against over-reacting to the virus.
In recent weeks, the virus has spread substantially beyond China and is now circulating in over 44 countries across the world, WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Thursday. Epidemics have emerged in Iran, Italy and South Korea, where the number of cases are rapidly rising every day…..”