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WHO cautions that transmission of the new coronavirus outside of China could increase

The question is whether we're in a lag phase of coronavirus transmission and the rate of infection outside China may pick up, or whether what we are seeing is the…
A nurse works in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, China, for patients infected with a novel coronavirus.

The World Health Organization’s director-general cautioned Saturday that transmission of the new coronavirus outside of China may increase and countries should prepare for that possibility.

“It’s slow now, but it may accelerate,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference in Geneva. “So while it’s still slow there is a window of opportunity that we should use to the

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