Dr. Gebresus said in a press conference that this information is slowly being completed after getting more data from China, which today published a paper containing detailed data on more than 44,000 cases. Certain injury.
He explained that this data gives a better understanding of the age range of the affected people, disease severity and mortality rate and therefore it is extremely important in enabling the WHO to provide good evidence-based advice to Different countries.
He added that the new data coming from China addresses some of the gaps in our understanding of this virus, but there are still other gaps.
Gebresus stressed the need for all governments to share all their data on the virus and infections publicly.
He pointed out that it is too early to know whether the reported decrease in cases of injury from China will continue or not as all the scenarios are on the table.
He stressed that the organization works day and night on several fronts to prepare countries to deal with the virus by sending groups to laboratories around the world and protecting health workers by sending equipment Personal protection for them.
He explained that China informed the World Health Organization that the number of cases had reached 70,635 as of yesterday morning, and 1772 deaths, with a rate of 2051 new cases compared to the first numbers. Yesterday, Sunday.
Gebrissos said that 94% of the new cases still come from the Chinese (Hubei) province, while the cases of infection outside China reached 694 cases in 25 countries with 3 Deaths.
