WHO says new crown pneumonia epidemic poses threat of global pandemic "very real"

WHO says new crown pneumonia epidemic poses threat of global pandemic "very real"

Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, March 9 (Reporter Liu Qu) World Health Organization Director-General Tan Desai said on the 9th that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has appeared in many countries and that the threat of a pandemic "has become very real."

Tan Desai said at a regular press conference that although the situation is severe, the new crown pneumonia epidemic will be "the first controllable pandemic in history."

Tan Desai said that the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic was uneven across the world. Different countries are affected differently by the epidemic and need to take targeted measures. What we need to do now is not to choose one of the two ways to curb and mitigate the spread of the epidemic. Rather, we need to curb and mitigate simultaneously.