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World Health Organization holds a news conference on coronavirus outbreak – 2/24/2020

Mar 22, 2024
You definitely want it and I'm sorry for these delays. It's a very busy day for us here in Geneva and that will make this

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room. Now journalists are online. It's time to click on the race to ask questions. The stars that mark today we need 6. This morning, Geneva time, China has reported a total of 77,362 cases of Kobe 19 2013 2,618 deaths in the last 24 hours China has reported 460 new confirmed cases and 150 we are encouraged by the continued decline in the cases in China Earlier today, the WTO joint mission that joined China concluded its visit and delivered its report, as you know, the team has traveled to several different provinces, including the team, which has reached a number of conclusions about the transmissibility of the virus, the severity of the disease and the impact of The measures taken found that the epidemic peaked and raged between January 23 and February 2 and has been steadily declining since then.
world health organization holds a news conference on coronavirus outbreak 2 24 2020
They found that there have been no significant changes to the virus's DNA. They found that the mortality rate. is between 2% and 4% in Wuhan and 0.7% outside Wuhan, they found that for people with mild illness the recovery time is about two weeks, why people with severe or critical illness They recover within 3 to 6 weeks. The team also estimates that the measures taken in China have prevented a significant number of cases, the report contains a wealth of additional information and highlights questions for which we do not yet have answers and includes 23 commendations dr. Bruce I worked for will give more details tomorrow on my behalf, join Tim, but the key message that should give all countries hope, courage and confidence is that this virus can be contained.
world health organization holds a news conference on coronavirus outbreak 2 24 2020

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In fact, there are many countries that have done exactly that, outside of China, there are now two. 1,074 cases in 28 countries and 23 compared to the sudden increase in cases in Italy, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Korea are deeply worrying, there is much speculation about whether this increase means that this epidemic has now become a pandemic that we understand. Why do people ask that question? Who, as you know, has already declared a public

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emergency of international concern? Our highest level of Allah when there were less than 100 cases outside China and eight cases of human-to-human transmission.
world health organization holds a news conference on coronavirus outbreak 2 24 2020
Our decision on whether to use or not. The global pandemic to describe an epidemic is based on an ongoing assessment of the geographic spread of the virus, the severity of the disease it causes, and the impact it has on society as a whole. For the moment we will not witness the uncontained global spread of this virus. and we are not witnessing large scale civilian illnesses or deaths, this virus has pandemic potential. I will omit it from our assessment not yet, so how should we describe the current situation? What do we see epidemics in different parts of the

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affecting countries? in different ways and requiring a personalized response, the sudden increase in new cases is undoubtedly very worrying.
world health organization holds a news conference on coronavirus outbreak 2 24 2020
I have constantly talked about the need for facts not fear, using the global pandemic now does not fit the facts but it certainly can cause fear, this is not the time to focus on what word we use that will not prevent a single infection today or say one life today this is a time for all countries, communities, families and individuals to focus on preparing, we do not live in a black and white binary

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, neither is / or should we focus on containment why do we do everything what possible to prepare for a possible pandemic? There is no one-size-fits-all approach.
Each country must make its own risk assessment for its own context. Where does he also continue to do all this? evaluation and is monitoring the evolution of the epidemic 24 hours a day, but there are at least three priorities: first, all countries must prioritize the protection of

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workers; Second, we must engage communities to protect people at highest risk of serious illness, particularly the elderly and people with underlying health conditions. conditions and we must protect the countries that are most vulnerable by doing everything possible to contain epidemics in countries with the capacity to do so. In recent days I have held meetings with the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Indonesia, Cuba, the Republic of Korea and me.
I want to thank you for helping to support the answer. I would also like to thank the European Commission for its contribution of €232 million, which demonstrates the kind of global solidarity that gives me hope. France, Germany and Sweden have also announced additional contributions. This is a shared threat. We can only face it together and we can only overcome it together when we act together countries regional and global health

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s the media the private sector and people everywhere our collective strength is formidable alone we lose together we win I thank you before starting with questions Some of You will know that the Chinese health authorities have organized a press

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at the end of the mission of the international team of experts in which dr.
Bruce is inferior to his national counterparts, he has more details about his findings as we speak. We sent you an audio file of this press conference so you can hear more about it and with that we will start with questions from our online call to a politician if you can hear us introduce ourselves yes yes the W is expected to receive it thank you for that yes , most of the funding is currently in the commitment stage, but we have internal mechanisms for firm commitments that we can begin spending against those commitments immediately. and we are making arrangements with Thomas Anderson to do just that, so that we can begin extending funds against the Tigers firm in the coming days.
Thank you very much sir, just to remind everyone of the very brief questions as we don't have much time. now we are asking, as I said, that we will answer some questions of I take the measures that China is taking and that when the fires reach a new location, countries must effectively follow the approach that China has, as I said in my statement Bruce will give a press statement tomorrow in Geneva, so I think it would be better to attend that thank you factor tomorrow, since I said that you can now listen to those who have not been listening, you can listen to what he has said while we are sending audio part , let's go to CNN China, if we can hear from China, hello, we need to be very careful in the first wave of infections in any newly affected country because we may only be detecting severe cases and the platforms will be overrepresented. in that we also need to be sure that the virus may have been there for longer than we had previously suspected, we know again and each country has a different dynamic that you saw in Japan, but with the sea princess that you see her Singapore with when you had a cluster at a conference where there were exports from that conference, what you've seen in the case of Iran is really just gathering, so there are times when you see an acceleration of cases of a spread that doesn't necessarily represent the natural transmission dynamics of the virus, it is largely driven by the context of a gathering and then the people moving afterward, so the natural transmission dynamics are such that if you look at most cases For example, China is in family roller coasters, most of the secondary cases.
Approximately 1 in 10 occur in families. The context is later confirmed as cases and that has been driving the epidemic. There are very, very particular circumstances, so again we need to understand the exact dynamics of what happened in Iran, but clearly there have been gatherings for religious festivals and then people come and then they move, so I think it will take a few more days. We have a team arriving in Iran tomorrow and our Regional Director will be there tomorrow as well and the team arrives in Italy as we speak and we are reaching out to all affected countries to ensure they have the necessary technical assistance to understand the specific context and transmission dynamics that you are watching, but again I caution everyone not to extrapolate from an individual country's experience, I think every situation is different.
Again there is the European Union and European countries have been working closely to keep their borders open and manage this risk collectively again. I think I've said in numerous press conferences that there is zero risk in this, this is good. Risk management is about good communication between States, it is about the management and early detection of cases and their appropriate isolation and treatment, it is not about closing borders, it is about coordinated public health action and by several Member States sharing borders to effectively manage the public. health consequences of any import of kovat 19 go back to the room so clean from CNN Jeff thinking dear yes I can hear you thanks for taking my call this is Jacqueline Howard from CMS fact about pandemic thanks for clarifying questions about the worst pandemic , my follow-up -Until that, this pandemic comes, I believe, from the Greek pandemic, which means that everyone must follow the population path, that is, every soap and a loss as a concept in which there is a belief that the entire world population will probably be exposed to this infection and potentially a proportion of them will get sick and we have seen influenza occur in different waves so sometimes influenza pandemics can be called much earlier because we know that we have had previous pandemics and we know that Influenza when there is a highly efficient community transmission response, as we see with seasonal flu, the disease spreads around the world and has been proven time and time again, so it is much easier to say that a pandemic will occur in a flu situation, but we don't understand that yes in in in in in Corbett 19, the absolute transmission dynamics and look what happened in China, we have seen a significant drop in cases, a lot of pressure put on the virus and I'm in a sequential decline in the number of cases that goes against the logic of the pandemic even faster. that an acceleration of cases in places like Korea and therefore we are still in the balance it is very important that the director general has said this again and again now is the time to prepare ourselves so that we are even in a phase of preparation for a possible pandemic countries are now a major disease it is time to prepare it is time to do everything possible to prepare for a pandemic but by declaring a pandemic it is too early we are still trying to avoid that reality we are still trying to avoid those eventualities and countries They are succeeding in doing so, so let's focus on what we can do and what we must do, which is prepare, when we mean prepare, we mean prepare to detect cases, be prepared to treat cases, be prepared to follow up contacts, be prepared to implement adequate containment measures, it's not, it's not, it's not a hundred different measures, there are probably five or six key interventions and the CEO outlined them in a speech and yet we may want to comment on this as well thank you very much and I think whatever it is The situation has been compiled, what is really important to understand is that the situation will be different in different contexts and that is why the local and national viscus s-mint is so important because that is how the intervention can really be adapted to the context. and even in a given country the situation may be different in different provinces, for example, and that is why it is so important now to prepare and grasp these nuances to be able to implement effective interventions and one of the comments is also that each disease has a different trigger and what we know about the flu because who has been eating humanity with different and indicates 3 in the last century and one in this century, so we have more experience with this type of disease and it is easier to define the triggers. for when we are on pre-alert and when we are ready, hello, how many, yes, how many are prepared, what is the second, the second, so I will take the first, as you know, at the beginning of this

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there was only one country that could do the testing now we have 41 countries and we are moving towards the rest of the countries that have not developed the capacity, but the meeting of the African Union health ministers was very, very important because it helps in continental preparedness. and also the preparation at the national level and they had a consensus on the boss and they agreed to do everything they can because it is the national preparation that is really central to fighting if it is known about the possible arrival of this virus on the continent with respect to the preparation . implement public health measures such as case detection, isolation, quarantine, in fact, paradoxically, African countries have quite a bit of experience in detecting specific syndromes.
Africa hasbeen leading the world in polio surveillance in surveillance for hemorrhagic fevers, which is a hemorrhagic syndrome along with cholera. which is a watery diarrhea syndrome for Lassa fever and yellow fever, so countries in Africa have been grappling with the identification, isolation and contact tracing of many different diseases. The challenge in this particular case is that this is a respiratory disease and the systems in Africa historically have not been as well developed for that, but with their partners in the global influenza surveillance network they have been doing quite a bit of work for the last five years since the last pandemic to strengthen the capacity of African public health systems to detect and implement surveillance for respiratory diseases, in particular restoring surveillance for respiratory tract infections, so we believe that surveillance systems are in their place, but what we have to do is connect the doctors and the hospitals with the surveillance systems with the laboratories so that those basic capabilities exist, but it is the same.
For all countries, including Italy and everywhere, the problem is that another crisis does not have the individual's capabilities. It is to make those capabilities work together in a coherent and coordinated way. We have seen that with polio eradication it is not just about individual capabilities, coordination, governance and the ability to drive a coherent response over a long period of time and we have seen that In the case of Ebola, in the Congo It has taken a year and a half to develop and implement a comprehensive multi-agency and multi-

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al capacity to contain Ebola in the Congo and prevent it from reaching neighboring countries, so I think Africa has a great track record, we need to support those systems and There are countries in other parts of the world that also have weaker health systems and we need to support them as well, which will require a few more questions from the room and we will have to answer them.
Please first question in history probably a tree in hand I have to do it and it is here to stay and could become a long term disease that coexists with humans like the flu. How to comment on this, we don't know what the reality will be in two months or six months. There is still a chance that we can contain the virus and that the interrupted strands will interrupt its transmission, but the virus could establish itself in an endemic pattern of transmission in a seasonal pattern of transmission or it could accelerate into a full-blown global pandemic and in This point is It is not possible to say which of those realities is going to happen;
In fact, the hope we have from there thanks to the efforts in China is that it is clear that China and several other countries with smaller events have managed to suppress and contain. the virus, but as I said, some countries are struggling with that, so now we have to see if we can learn the lessons and I think that will be one of the important things that will come out of the mission to China: collecting and bringing together all that experience. that China has had over the last eight weeks to see what we can learn about the right things to do, what works, what doesn't work, what is effective, what is not effective, but you are right, if anyone wants to predict the future, you can do it. but the possibility you raise is certainly one that could happen thanks to your constant guitar playing.
My question is about preparation. We often talk about Africa, but as Mike and Dr. Taylor just highlighted, Africa is used to, I mean, dealing with these types of

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s, but I would like to know what is happening with European countries. They are ready? We see what is happening in Italy. Geneva, for example, follow-up to my colleague's question. Geneva is a center. conference center we just had the Human Rights Council session that opened this morning there is nothing at the airports there is nothing around here to take temperatures or anything like that so what do you think?
Are you also afraid of the coordination of governments and the current response of the United States? The European authorities thank you because all countries have two things, all countries have vulnerable populations, there are many older people with underlying illnesses who may be negatively affected if this virus arrives and spreads, secondly, many of our health systems , even in the most developed countries. In fact, very often in the most developed countries they operate at almost 100% efficiency or impact all the time, you don't see many extra beds in Europe's hospitals, so the problem for European countries and other countries in the developed world is that Health systems may come under a lot of additional pressure, we see that with seasonal influenza every winter, but slowing the spread of the virus even now, slowing the spread of the virus in Europe so that the flu season is over will free up a capacity significant in the health system.
So even slowing down the virus by a month or six weeks has a huge positive benefit to the system. You are right, all systems have vulnerabilities, but again, we have said it before when it comes to conferences, when it comes to movement, there is no zero risk, we cannot close the world in the sense that we can all close their borders and everyone can say that there is no movement that is not going to work because diseases can spread between nations, so I think what we need to focus on is the risk. management reduce the risks of disease importation reduce the risk of disease transmission increase the survival of patients who get sick and understand that this virus can come and cause outbreaks or epidemics in any number of countries, but they can be controlled, they can be addressed but I think we have to be very careful in trying to suggest that we can completely stop the spread of this virus from one country to another.
I do not think that's possible. I think you are right and I think we have seen many crises, not necessarily related to viruses, but if you remember a few years ago, the heat wave also shows that all countries have vulnerabilities, but that is why the alert was generated, so now they have to really consider the plan because normally most of the countries have made a preparedness plan and they have tested this plan and they have seen if this plan will work and they have put aside all the facilities that they can have to be able to defeat the virus. when it reaches many European countries, except the One thing that might surprise many countries, but one thing that is clear is the capacity that the institutional capacity that they have can be activated to counter, so that is one thing, but they have capacity, of course, institutional capacities.
We will send you an audio file from this We will shortly send you an audio file of the conference that took place in China today and then we will have on our Twitter account a brief meeting of the Secretary General of the United Nations with some of the journalists around the 5:30 today, so follow us. us on Twitter thank you very much and have a good day thank you

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