“I have already said that we sent diagnostic kits to laboratories around the world. We also supply masks, gloves, and bathrobes to 18 countries and plan more (deliveries to other countries), ”TASS quotes the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus.

He also noted that the number of newly confirmed cases of the disease caused by the COVID-19 virus registered in China has stabilized over the week.

Earlier, the World Health Organization gave the official name to the new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, now the disease is called COVID-19.