On March 8, local time, WHO held a routine press conference for new coronary pneumonia. WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus said that on January 30 last year, WHO declared the new crown pneumonia epidemic as a “public health emergency of international concern” ", this is the highest level of alert.
Since then, WHO has continuously issued alarms and provided countries with the strategies, guidelines and tools needed to prevent, detect and respond to the new coronavirus.
Since February 5 last year, the WHO has held daily news conferences on new crown pneumonia to inform the world about the risks caused by the new crown virus and the measures that governments and individuals need to take.
The WHO also warned that there is a window of opportunity to prevent the new crown pneumonia from becoming a potential pandemic. Some countries have taken action, while others have been slow to respond.
In the following weeks, the number of countries affected by the epidemic and the number of global cases increased rapidly, leading to the declaration of the new crown pneumonia as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11 last year.
Tan Desai emphasized that human beings have suffered too much and lost too many lives due to the new coronary pneumonia, and the progress that has been made cannot be wasted.
There are tools to control the epidemic, but they must be used fairly.
Science, solutions and solidarity are still the guidelines, and there is no shortcut to the epidemic.
(Headquarters reporter Zhu He)