"The organization has received confirmation that there are more than 100 cases in the Chinese capital after more than 50 days without registration," said Gebrissius at a remote news conference from the organization's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Cases in that city, and an investigation is under way to find the exact location of the virus and its impact.
He added that entering the (influenza) season in the southern hemisphere requires coordination and not wasting time because the spread of seasonal influenza at the same time with the Corona virus will exacerbate the crisis on Health care systems are already overburdened.
Gebresius noted that the organization has already published guidelines on how to integrate corona virus monitoring with routine seasonal influenza monitoring as an effective way to track these two respiratory viruses.
The Director-General of the organization stressed in this regard the need to vigil the countries that were able to curb the injuries to face the possibility of the re-emergence of the disease in their territories.
He explained that the rates of reporting of new cases of coronavirus reach an average of 100,000 new cases per day, while the total number of infected people now exceeds 7.8 million, of whom 430,000 have died. A human being.
