What suggestions do you have for countries like Italy and Iran?

Bruce Aylward: Educate your population really, really well about what the symptoms and signs are, and make it very easy to get tested, and as you get this under control in your own country do your role to prevent its international spread. Those are the big messages. The rest is technical stuff, but you need your population with you, which is what you have had in China.

Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist and leader of the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19, shares his insights with China Daily in Geneva on March 6.