The meeting will be led by WHO Director-General Tedros Adan Gébreiasus.
BREAKING: WHO Director-General @DrTedros will convene an Emergency Committee on the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) under the International Health Regulations.
The Committee will meet on Wednesday, 22 January 2020. pic.twitter.com/w3w7ZuoTeG
As the UN noted, the Emergency Committee will discuss "whether the outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern."
It was previously reported that in Wuhan, dozens of people fell ill with an unknown form of pneumonia. Later it became known that the cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia of unknown origin was a new type of coronavirus, which is transmitted from person to person.