COVID-19: 'We Can Push This Virus Back,' WHO Leader Says Of Coronavirus
As the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness spreads around the world, governments have a chance to "break the chains of transmission," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is now in at least 75 countries, the World Health Organization said in a Wednesday update on the respiratory disease that has killed more than 3,200 people globally. Italy is being hit particularly hard, with more than 2,000 cases.
Despite the increase in cases, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, "We can push this virus back."
"This virus is not SARS, it is. "The nature of this virus means we have an opportunity to break the chains of transmission and contain its spread."
