World Health Organisation said there were almost nine times more cases reported outside China than inside China in the past 24 hours.
RUSTENBURG - The number of coronavirus cases continue to decline in China, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
"Outside China, a total of 8,739 cases of Covid-19 have been reported to WHO from 61 countries, with 127 deaths," WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva, Switzerland. "The epidemics in the Republic of Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan are our greatest concern. I would also like to inform you that a WHO team arrived in Iran this afternoon to deliver supplies and support the government in the response," he said.
"That’s important because it indicates that surveillance measures are working and Korea’s epidemic can still be contained."
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