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WHO: Threat of COVID-19 is close to pandemic

By Yang Yilin | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-03-10 03:20

At the WHO news briefing on Monday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the spread of COVID-19 has reached close to pandemic level.

He said the WHO urged countries to take a comprehensive strategy for controlling the situation, and added it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled.

"The bottom line is: we are not at the mercy of this virus," Tedros added.

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