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Written by: Li Fuyuan
2020-01-31 03:54
Last updated: 2020-01-31 05:08The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday (30) that the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan was an "public health emergency of international concern."
WHO experts meet in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss Wuhan's new coronavirus epidemic, and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stresses that WHO's biggest concern is that the virus could spread to countries with weak health systems rather than cast a distrust on China It does not recommend the implementation of tourism and trade restrictions to China. It reiterates that the WHO highly affirms China's prevention and control measures and is confident that China can control the epidemic situation and believes that it can reverse the current situation.
"In the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of an unknown pathogen that has caused an unprecedented outbreak, and we must now unite to stop the spread of the disease," he said.
The number of confirmed cases of new pneumonia has now increased to approximately 8,120, and the number of people infected has surpassed SARS in 2003. In the same year, about 8,100 people worldwide became infected with SARS. The WHO believes that the current situation of human-to-human transmission outside of China is limited, and it is focusing on stopping the spread of the epidemic in countries where imported cases have occurred. The main goal of the WHO is to strengthen global diagnostic capabilities to improve surveillance and early detection and tracking of virus transmission .
The most recent was the outbreak in Congo Ebola
The WHO has announced international public health emergencies five times in the past, the most recent being the Ebola outbreak that started on August 1, 2018 in the eastern Congo and has killed more than 2,000 people so far. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, said that one of the criteria for determining whether the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic is an international public health emergency is whether the virus will spread locally once it reaches another new place, and another The criterion is whether the epidemic has or may affect trade and tourism. WHO hopes to curb the epidemic without affecting economic activities.
Declaring the outbreak as an international public health emergency will not give WHO additional funding or power, but it will help get more attention, while allowing the Director-General to make recommendations to countries, promote stronger public health measures, and provide more resources Prevent epidemics, such as whether tourism or trade restrictions should be implemented, although WHO generally avoids proposing trade restrictions.
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