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    Coronavirus Update: Containment Is Possible, WHO Says

    "We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission but which can also be contained with the right measures," the WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
    by Bill Chappell Mar 02, 2020 3 minutes
    As the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads to more areas, a health worker checks a man's temperature at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Duhok, Iraq, last Tuesday.

    The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 poses a unique challenge to health authorities, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday as he gave an update on the viral epidemic that has now touched at least 62 countries. But he added that the virus is also showing signs that it can be contained.

    "We are in unchartered territory," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva. "We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission but which can also be contained with the right measures."

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