World Health Organization says 'test, test, test' for coronavirus

'Test, test, test': WHO chief's coronavirus message to world

FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Orgnaization ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

ZURICH/LAUSANNE - The World Health Organization called on all countries on Monday to ramp up their testing programmes as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic. “We have a simple message to all countries - test, test, test,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference in Geneva.

Without testing, cases could not be isolated and the chain of infection would not be broken, he added.

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