WHO Raises Global Risk for Coronavirus to Very High
- Concern grows as cases spread from hot spots in Italy, Iran
- Virus behaving like once-in-a-century pathogen, Gates says
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The World Health Organization raised its global risk assessment for the new coronavirus to “very high” from “high” as some countries struggle to contain the pathogen.
Infections that are spreading from Italy and Iran to other countries are raising concerns about the virus that emerged in China, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing Friday. Some health systems aren’t ready to deal with the widening epidemic, he said.