World must consider coronavirus 'public enemy number one' - WHO
Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks during the news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland on February 11. (REUTERS Photo)
GENEVA, February 11 (Reuters): The World Health Organization asked countries to be "as aggressive as possible" in fighting the newly named COVID-19 coronavirus on Tuesday.
"If the world doesn't want to wake up and consider the virus as public enemy number one, I don't think we will will learn from our lessons," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva.
"...We are still in containment strategy and should not allow the virus to have a space to have local transmission."