She called as the first enemy of humanity .. WHO is sounding the alarm about Corona

The World Health Organization has asked countries to consider the Coruna virus as "the first enemy of mankind", and to do everything in their power to combat the virus that was recently called the 19th Covid.

"If the world does not want to wake up and the virus is the number one enemy of humanity, then I think we will not learn from our lessons ... we are still in the containment strategy and we should not allow the virus to have a field of transmission at the level of," said WHO Director-General Tidros Adhanom Gebresos in Geneva. the local".

Gebrissos revealed during a press briefing in Geneva on the sidelines of a meeting of about 400 experts, that the first vaccine against the Corona virus will not be available until after 18 months, but he nevertheless stressed that finding a vaccine and antibiotics for the virus is one of the most important goals of ongoing research, but that is not the only option There are a number of other basic aspects of intervention and preventing transmission.

He added that since the first vaccine for the virus will not be ready until after 18 months, "we must do everything possible now to fight the virus using the available weapons."

"Let's be serious with the available control windows, and if we lose this opportunity, we will regret it," he said, adding that the most important issue in the battle against the emerging Corona virus is the speed with which it can spread outside China.

He said that his organization agreed to give the virus the name Covid 19, with the aim of cutting the road to using other names that may be wrong or inaccurate, noting that the new name may provide an opportunity to use it in general against all types of corona viruses.

Earlier Tuesday, the National Health Commission of China announced that the number of deaths due to infection with the new Coruna virus had increased to 1017 people, and those infected to 42,638 people.

This number exceeded the total death toll from the SARS epidemic that spread between 2002 and 2003, which reached 774 worldwide, the majority of them in China.