GENEVA/LONDON — A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, while warning that infections outside the country could still spread. "We are encouraged by this trend but this is no time for complacency," the WHO's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a briefing in Geneva. To date, 25 other countries have reported 1,076 cases to WHO, including five in the latest affected, Iran, he said. Tedros noted that the total was very low compared with nearly 75,000 inside China, but added: "That may not stay the same for long".

Source: International New York Times February 20, 2020 16:45 UTC