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Yes and thank you very much for waking up with us sorry for the delay today we continue with our press conferences on the

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disease covered 90 dr. The terrorist has returned from his trips to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Munich conference. You were able to see the speech he gave on a significant Saturday. Again we have a journalist following us on our Twitter account with a journalist dialing online and looking, that's dear Truffaut and what she reconnects with is a zero star if you're on the phone and it's clicking a running hand If you are online we will have an audio file and we will have a transcript of this press conference today decided to tell us that we can have again dr.

Mike Ryan - executive director of

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emergencies that of the young civilian director of global preparedness for infectious risks I give you the floor immediately - doctor Tetris thank you thank you Tarek and good afternoon everyone let me start as I always do with the latest data At 6:00 Today, Geneva time, China has reported seventy thousand six hundred and thirty-five cases of Kovat 19 - Double Hour, including 1,772 deaths in the last 24 hours. China has reported 2,005,2,051 new cases, including clinically confirmed and confirmed cases, 94% of cases. New cases continue to arrive from Hebei province outside China, which has received reports of 694 cases from 25 countries and three.

As more data comes in from China, we are starting to get a clearer picture of the outbreak, how it is developing and where it might be. headlined today China has published an article with detailed data on more than 44,000 confirmed cases of Corbett 19, this gives us a better understanding about the age range of the affected people, the severity of the disease and the mortality rate as such, they are very important in allowing whu-oh to provide good evidence-based advice to countries, we encourage all countries to share their data publicly. The data also appeared to show a decline in new cases.

This trend should be interpreted with great caution. Trends may change as new populations are affected. It is too. It is too early to know if this reported decline will continue. All scenarios are still on the table. It also appears that commitment 19 is not as deadly as other corona viruses, including SARS and MERS. More than 80 percent of patients have mild illness and about 14 percent will recover. Of cases, the virus causes severe illness including pneumonia and difficulty breathing, and about five percent of patients have critical illness, including respiratory failure, septic shock, and multiple organ failure. In two percent of reported cases, the virus is Faton and increases the risk of death. the older you are, we see relatively few cases among children.

More research is needed to understand why these new data address some of the gaps in our understanding, but others remain. The international team of experts now in China is working with their Chinese counterparts to better understand those gaps and improve our understanding of the outbreak. We thank all partners who have met with the experts available through that objective framework. Whu-oh continues to work around the clock on multiple fronts to prepare countries by shipping testing kits to laboratories around the

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. We are protecting workers by sending personal protective equipment to many countries and are working with manufacturers to ensure the provision of training to

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workers, providing advice to countries on how to conduct testing, contact tracing and treatment, and we have launched a call for $675 million to help countries prepare.

I thank the donors who have contributed, but we have not seen the urgency in the funding that we need, as I keep saying we have a window of opportunity now, we need resources now to ensure that countries are prepared now rather than not. I don't know how long this window of opportunity will remain open, let's not waste it. I thank the terrorists, we have about 20 minutes for questions, no more than that, so I would ask everyone to ask a very short question, star nine, if you are marking. when you click raise your hand if you're online we'll start as usual here in the room we have one two three and then we'll move on please and if you can yes run ryan on wealth risk assessments for

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disease on 19, 2019, if I am. bad, I understand the ratio uses the word and then we specifically say the flu earthquake case assessment of August 19, which is high now becomes very high in the future, would it be safe for us in general if they called it endemic in general terms, thank you, yes?

I think we need to be extremely cautious in using the term and we had a lot of controversies during the H1N1 situation about when it was a pandemic and when it was not a pandemic and I think we need to be careful because the real issue here is whether we are seeing efficient community transmission outside from China and at the moment we are not observing them and, as such, we are not in a position to have that discussion. What we are seeing again, as we said earlier, is the majority of cases outside of China. China still has a direct link with China and of that transmission that occurred in countries outside of China, the majority of that transmission can be traced through existing transmission chains, so I think we need to be very careful not to create fear in the

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. right now and be very careful using the words that you have used, we have said it, the risk is very high in China, this is high regionally and it is high around the world, that is not, the risk is high a pandemic, the risk is high. the disease can spread further and I believe that, at face value, that is true.

I don't know if Sylvia, now I think you're right. I think the difficulty with a certain word is that its interpretation varies and, for the general public, very often it is a pandemic. It really is a worst case scenario and that's why I think before we call the event a worst case scenario we need a lot more evidence and a lot more data and that's why I think we need to be cautious because it can really create panic unnecessarily. because the important thing is that we all agree on the risk so that we can do the team's series of face-to-face meetings with their Chinese counterparts and it is excellent to see such eminent international experts working side by side with their Chinese counterparts for much of The work of the last 72 hours has been to raise and agree on one of those outstanding issues that we have been talking about about those unknowns and that is to agree on what we don't agree on, what we don't know and agree on what the best way is.

To access information that we don't know, the team will be able to go visit provinces and see things on the ground. They will continue with those who work together and again we reflect on the fact that this is a collaboration. between Chinese scientists and scientists in the international community and should be seen as such recently said that the new virus could, in fact, 2/3, still today it is a concern for the world what is your comment comments on this WH or hmm works with many people around the world The world and people can express that we use unlikely scenarios or many of you have seen the various ranges of r0 or not that have been proposed and all of that is important to generate hypotheses for possible scenarios in the future, but we've covered this before because we had some of the same predictions last week from other scientists.

All predictions are important. Most predictions are wrong. Nowadays, Chinese officials call former patients who recovered to give them their broth to extract the plasma and give it to the patients. You're still here? Do you think this is a good option? The use of convalescent plasma or hyperimmunoglobulin has been part of the treatment of serious infectious diseases since almost the beginning of when we understood viral infection, we have seen it as we see it. In rabies we have seen it in other infections and it has proven to be effective and save

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s in a number of different diseases.

The different theory has been gained more recently when we use a similar approach, so it is a very important area to follow and again we will need to look at how it is used, which patients are most likely to benefit from its use, when during the course of the disease will be beneficial because what hyperimmunoglobulin does is concentrate the antibodies in a recovering patient and you Basically, by giving a boost to the immune system of the new victims, you are giving them a boost of antibodies to hopefully get through the phase so difficult, so it must be given at the right time because it absorbs the virus into the system and simply gives us The new patient's immune system is a vital boost at the time it needs it, but it must be carefully timed and is not always successful, so it is a very important area of ​​discovery and I think they are starting trials on it in China, but it is a very valid way to explore therapies, especially when we do not have vaccines or we do not have specific antivirals and just add that, of course, the The protocol that I will use is very important and especially the safety because as you know please blood products can also transmit other diseases so the purification protocol is very important and also the scale of how many patients can receive this therapy because not It is easy to produce and that is why all those aspects must be careful.

Evaluated before use widely. Thank you so much. We'll go online for some questions. Let's start with China Daily. Can you hear us? Do we have anyone online from China Daily? If not, can we track someone from Switzerland online? So, let's go. again online due to any doubts about the efficiency of the effectiveness of tests for the virus given Kumano Kodo in cases where people with multiple text changes or turned out to be negative and finally no diagnostic test is foolproof, we have seen that with screening and other programs around the world, especially when the tests are new, disabling dose tests, there is always a small chance of a false positive or a false negative and someone being told they are positive when they do not have the virus or sometimes someone tells you that they don't have the virus and it later turns out that they have that virus, so that's an important consideration and that's why clinical suspicion and intention-to-treat diagnosis is always very important if there is a link. epidemiological with the previous case and if the person is extremely sick. and you get a negative texture, I would always retest that patient to retest the protocols and then validate those samples and the reference labs, especially when countries are testing for the first time, we require internal countries to share the first hundred samples with an international reference. laboratory so we can validate their testing protocols, so there are a lot of checks and balances in place, but again we rely on common sense.

No test is foolproof because what it does allow is for busy doctors and others to identify patients who have called in mid-nineteen. and trying and consequently once again to connect, someone calls us from Canada. Can we let me try? Let me try. Can you hear it? Yes, there are reports in Montreal that passengers have not been screened aboard the Diamond Princess, what else can be done? tell us on that front and if Quatrain Wallet would like to hear about tickling, very briefly on this matter, thank you. Yes, on this topic. I think what is clear is that it is very difficult to ensure that infection prevention and control measures are difficult. implement in the internal environment of the ship because there are a number of factors that are very difficult to control and we have seen this on many other occasions for other infections, such as non-viral infections or other types of infections, so it is not specific for kovat. 19:00 and that is why we are working very closely with the various powers of the Japanese authorities, but also with the medical director of those cruise ships to see what would be the best measure to implement to protect the people on the ships. but also make sure that we continue to meet our objective, which is the containment of the virus, and I think this is what we are going to do.

I mean, what we're doing currently is also very conscious that we need to make sure that we focus on our Public Health goal, which is to contain the virus and not contain people and make sure that we can have the right balance between the health of the population in Japan and other countries, but also the health of the people who are currently on this ship and so we need to have that balance and currently it is quite difficult because there are still many unknowns about this virus, so measures are currently being implemented and evaluated and they are monitored almost every hour because we learnevery day and if we worry more about these diseases, it responds to the virus. 50 mantra values ​​the greenhouse for the Japanese May tea silly, I mean, the toxic limits reproduces the tip the bottle with the quasi press in front of a tool is the monkey fundamentally so risk so wolf camellia uncle in a moment of truth Konkani possible resource in disease Omiya Lumiere novel mechanism it is possible to put a jealous aunt - aunt template at the bottom AOC cote de la santé of the population The Japanese still do not see some contaminants available, for example, the liberal patootie module, a Congressional target as the company nervously hovers around almost nobility percentage, at least I appreciate the journey Mi-young is accustomed to to preserve a land to physically attack a different community because they have been exceptionally open, transparent and cooperative throughout this process and that is something we deeply appreciate.

Thank you very much, let's try to get to Sarah. serving from demux Sark and here is her diary with Joe is

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lab cases at the beginning of any arrest conference she can use in the lab. Also, I wonder what the media should do with more tea for clinical cases, the data we received this morning doesn't disaggregate between lab and clinically confirmed cases, that's why we report that raw number. I think we'll continue to report both numbers as they become available, but I think the combined total number of both will probably be a better number in the future, but we're working on it. with our colleagues in China to see if they will report both figures daily from now on.

Thank you very much, let's try to quickly answer one or two more questions before we can encourage openness. We say the same thing about Our own principles here are that when we receive misinformation, our job is not to go after people who spread misinformation, but to publish good information and give people the best information, so it's not about going after the de

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ry courier. We encourage openness and transparency. at all levels it is the best way for Public Health to do its job and it doesn't matter what urine it doesn't matter what level you represent, so openness and transparency is the way to go and we always like it in the cases we refer to .

On quarantine ships we always have to balance the public and common good with the rights of the individual and sometimes that is a very difficult balance to achieve and it has been a historical balance and we have seen it in 1918 and the great pandemic. where governments, including yours and the US, had to make some very difficult decisions about quarantine, very difficult decisions about sharing information and that is something that they cannot ignore and it is very important that all governments can to balance the good of society and community with the rights of individuals to communicate openly.

Thank you so much. I think we have time for one more question, please, dr. Ryan, you're just talking about protecting people's rights, and while travel warnings should be taken very seriously and not lightly, it's too early to talk about any sort of suggestive ban on cruise travel, even within certain regions, to stay away. from Asia to prevent the situation that you have to do, I understand your point, but even the conflict of your sanctions to stay away, we have an equal group, we should stay away from cruise ships or stay away from airports or stay away from certain ethnic groups .

The groups stayed away from other things, we have to be very careful here, there is no zero risk in the world at all, but we still mentioned that we needed an approach to managing risk that allows us to continue operating as a society while minimizing the risks that we know. and that doesn't matter, we are talking about travel or meetings, it doesn't matter if we are talking about cruise ships, these are manageable risks and again we must reflect on the fact that the vast majority of these cases are within China, when you look at the attack rates to the population within China, even within, we're talking about an overall attack rate of about 400,000, you know this is a very serious outbreak and it has the potential to grow, but we need to balance it.

In terms of the number of infected people out there that they can, this epidemic is affecting a very small proportion of people, so if we are going to interrupt all cruise ships in the world on the off chance that there may be some potential contact with some pathogen potential, so where do we stop? We send the buses all over the world and what happens when other countries are affected. Do we take the same measures in that case? Therefore, we must be extremely measured in what we do and everything you need. to be based on public health it must be based on evidence it must be based on one principle: there is no such thing as zero risk and every person on this planet understands that it is impossible to reduce the risk of anything to zero to that, measures must be taken proportionally to the situation based on public health signs and evidence and general measures may not help, so that's what we're trying to say;

Otherwise, you know, like Mike said, there's no zero risk, but it has to be that way. be proportionate to the situation, but again, some specific risks associated with a small number of cruises and again the risk of that has disappeared, so I think we may need to be realistic about what has happened, but very often, unlike what has happened, not determine what to do next, so I think we need to quickly separate ourselves from where we are now, what is the evidence from time to time, where do we go from here, so I fully understand your point and I fully understand your concern , but again we have to stay very balanced before we have to get into unfortunate situations and particularly I would say in the case of stigma and if we leave aside the issue of cruises if I can't take my cruise vacation maybe it's not the end of the world , but there are many people around the world who suffered stigma and discrimination and other things and maybe we should worry about that and make sure that people around the world show solidarity with those affected and do not extend the risk beyond what is reasonable and Again we must avoid stigma at all costs.

Thank you very much Jim. I'm so sorry, but again, our guests have to give now, so we'll conclude here. Thank you all for watching. We will have an audio file and a transcript. Follow us on our social media platforms. The status report will appear on the website again tonight. Thank you so much.