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WHO tells countries to prepare for coronavirus pandemic, but insists it’s too soon to make that call

The WHO says the #coronavirus outbreak that has swept from China to a number of countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe is not yet a pandemic, but it…
People wearing protective masks shop at a pharmacy in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday. Iran has now diagnosed more than 60 coronavirus cases, 13 of them fatal.

The World Health Organization said the coronavirus outbreak that has swept from China to a number of countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe is not yet a pandemic, but it urged countries to prepare for its arrival on the assumption that a declaration may come.

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries should be working to protect health workers, engaging groups that are at highest risk — for instance, the elderly — and striving to contain spread of

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