On February 15, local time, the WHO held a routine press conference for new coronary pneumonia.
WHO Director-General Tan Desai said that the number of new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide has fallen for the fifth consecutive week. The number of new confirmed cases last week was the lowest in a single week since October last year.
Since the beginning of this year, the number of new cases every week in the world has dropped by nearly half, from more than 5 million new confirmed cases in the week of January 4 to 2.6 million in the week of February 8.
Tan Desai pointed out that this shows that even if there is a mutant new coronavirus, simple public health measures can work.
He said: "The important thing now is how to respond to this trend. The epidemic has not ended, but its scale has decreased. If we stop fighting it, it will come back. The decrease in the number of new confirmed cases every day means corresponding medical measures. Life has been saved, pain has been avoided, and the burden on the health system has also been reduced.” (Central Station reporter Zhu He)
(Edit Xu Qian)