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The World Health Organisation has declared a global emergency over coronavirus after the number of cases spiked 10-fold in a week.
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January 31, 20207:46am
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The World Health Organisation has declared the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency.
The virus has spread from China to more than a dozen countries, with the number of confirmed cases spiking tenfold in a week.
The UN health agency defines an international emergency as an “extraordinary event” that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a co-ordinated international response.
“The main reason for this declaration is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday morning.
“Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems, and which are ill-prepared to deal with it.”
China first informed WHO about cases of the new virus in late December.
To date, 8248 cases have been reported, and 170 people have died in China. Eighteen other countries have reported confirmed infections, as scientists race to understand exactly how the virus is spreading and how severe it is.
There are nine confirmed cases in Australia.
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