The head of WHO went to China in connection with an outbreak of coronavirus

He wrote about this on his Twitter.

I am on my way to Beijing, 🇨🇳 to meet with the Government & health experts supporting the #coronavirus response. My @WHO colleagues & I would like to understand the latest developments & strengthen our partnership with 🇨🇳 in providing further protection against the outbreak.

“I'm heading to China to meet with the government and health experts involved in the treatment and prevention of coronavirus,” said Gebreyesus.

He noted that the purpose of this trip was to understand the latest developments and strengthen cooperation with China in providing further protection against an outbreak.

Earlier, Chinese scientists from the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control found that wild animals became the likely source of the new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

The number of patients with coronavirus in the PRC increased to 1975, 56 people died.

The chief freelance epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia Nikolai Briko, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru, emphasized that the agency did not intend to announce an emergency situation in Russia because of the coronavirus in China.