This photo taken on February 17, 2020 shows a patient who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus looking at a book at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province. AFP PHOTOThe World Health Organization has warned against a global over-reaction to the new coronavirus epidemic following panic-buying, event cancellations and concerns about cruise ship travel, as China’s official death toll neared 1,900 on Tuesday.
Trade fairs, sports competitions and cultural events have been disrupted, while several countries have banned travellers from China and major airlines have suspended flights. “Measures should be taken proportional to the situation. Blanket measures may not help,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.Authorities have placed about 56 million people in hard-hit central Hubei under quarantine, virtually sealing off the province from the rest of the country.
Attention was also turning to the Westerdam, a cruise ship in Cambodia, where many of the 2,200 people aboard passengers were allowed to disembark after all initially receiving a clean bill of health. There were nearly 1,900 new cases — a drop from the previous day. Reported new infections have been falling in the rest of the country for the past two weeks.But the situation remains dire at the epicentre, with the director of a Wuhan hospital dying on Tuesday — the seventh medical worker to succumb to the COVID-19 illness.
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