China on Wednesday reported a drop in the number of new coronavirus cases. The new confirmed cases, the lowest daily rise since Jan. 30, took the country's total to 44,653
BEIJING/SINGAPORE - China reported on Wednesday its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by Beijing’s senior medical adviser for the outbreak there to end by April, but U.N. health authorities warned it could still “go in any direction”.
But the World Health Organization has likened the epidemic’s threat to terrorism and WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the apparent slowdown in the spread of the epidemic should be viewed with “extreme caution”.Another expert said that while the coronavirus may be peaking in China, this was not the case beyond.
Hundreds of infections have been reported in dozens of other countries and territories, but only two people have died outside mainland China: one in Hong Kong and another in the Philippines. The head of the WHO’s emergency programme, Dr Mike Ryan, said it was too early “to predict the beginning, the middle or end of the epidemic”.The biggest cluster outside China is on a cruise ship quarantined off the Japanese port of Yokohama, with about 3,700 people on board, of whom 175 have tested positive.
Global ship deliveries have also been dented as yards in China, one of the biggest shipbuilders, struggle to get fully back to work. The outbreak has been named COVID-19 - CO for corona, VI for virus, D for disease and 19 for the year that it emerged. It is suspected to have originated in a market illegally trading wildlife in the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan in December.Moves by Washington and others to curb visitors from China have offended Beijing, which says they are an over-reaction.
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