GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has spread from China to two dozen countries, does not yet constitute a "pandemic". "Currently we are not in a pandemic," Sylvie Briand, head of WHO's Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness division, told reporters in Geneva. Who said that since China reported the emergence of a new coronavirus in December, the SARS-like disease has infected more than 20,400 people and killed 425. China's National Health Commission (NHC) reported on Tuesday that there were 632 recoveries nationwide. According to details released by health officials in China and reported by local media, the victims to die of the virus were between 36 and 89-years-old.

Source: The Star February 04, 2020 12:11 UTC