The World Health Organization's chief reiterated that they issued an early warning against the COVID19.
The World Health Organization's director-general said Monday that the agency had sounded the highest level of alarm over the novel coronavirus early on, but lamented that not all countries had heeded its advice.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO warned the COVID-19 outbreak constituted a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" on January 30, when there were no deaths and only 82 cases registered outside China.
"You can check for yourselves: countries who followed that are in a better position than others. This is fact.""Each country takes its own responsibility." The pandemic has claimed more than 206,000 lives and infected nearly three million people, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP Monday.
The United States has the highest number of deaths at nearly 55,000, out of close to one million registered cases.
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