WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that the current level of the virus’s outbreak “may only be … the tip of the iceberg'
Passengers line up to leave the World Dream cruise ship at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal on February 9, 2020 in Hong Kong, China, after the ship sat at the dock for four days. Photo: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images On Sunday, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged all countries to “step up efforts to prepare” for the international spread of coronavirus and encouraged leaders to share information about the outbreak in “real time” with the U.N.
On Sunday, deaths from the coronavirus in China — where infections were first reported in the city of Wuhan in late December — surpassed the total from the SARS outbreak of 2002–3. To date, the Wuhan coronavirus has killed 908, while the death toll of SARS, which is a strain within the same family of viruses, reached 774 worldwide. According to China’s National Health Commission, there are currently 40,171 confirmed cases of the virus.
Over the weekend, multiple reports from cruises under quarantine dominated the press surrounding the virus. In New Jersey, four Chinese passengers were cleared of Wuhan coronavirus after arriving in the U.S. with flulike symptoms. And while other cruises were denied entry into Guam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, a ship owned by Princess Cruises, the Diamond Princess, was quarantined off the coast of Japan.
Responding to a report that five British citizens contracted coronavirus while on a ski trip to the French alpine resort of Les Contamines-Montjoie, Foreign Policy senior editor James Palmer forwarded an idea that complements the WHO head’s suggestion that the global health crisis could worsen: “Notice how the coronavirus cases we’re seeing abroad are in the settings of the rich, such as cruise ships and ski resorts and business conferences? That probably means cases are going undetected among...
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