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GENEVA, Jan 27 — The head of the World Health Organisation headed to China yesterday to discuss how to contain a virus outbreak that has killed 56 people and infected over 2,000 worldwide. “I am on my way to Beijing, to meet with the government and health experts supporting the #coronavirus...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a news conference on the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV in Geneva, Switzerland January 22, 2020. — Reuters pic

“I am on my way to Beijing, to meet with the government and health experts supporting the #coronavirus response,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Twitter. On the advice of an emergency committee of international experts, Tedros last week stopped short of declaring the coronavirus outbreak an international public health emergency.

 

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