“We have raised our assessment of the spread risk and exposure risk of COVID-19 to a very high global level,” he quoted WHO on Twitter.
Earlier in China, published the data of pathological and anatomical examination of the body of the first who died due to coronavirus infection COVID-19.
WHO recognized the outbreak as an emergency of international importance and assigned the disease its official name COVID-19.
Gebreyesus noted that the infection has the potential for a pandemic.