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(24 Feb 2020) The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the outbreak of a new virus which began in China has not reached a pandemic scale even though more cases have been confirmed in several countries across the world.
Speaking to the media in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO was "encouraged by the continued decline in cases in China."
The number of people sickened by the coronavirus topped 79,000 globally, and wherever it sprung up, officials rushed to try to contain it.
"Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely, yes," Tedros said, but "for the moment we're not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this virus."
China still has the vast majority of cases, but as it records lower levels of new infections, attention has shifted to new fronts in the outbreak.
Chief among them is South Korea, where President Moon Jae-in placed the country under a red alert, the highest level, allowing for "unprecedented, powerful steps" to stem the crisis.
Clusters of the virus continued to emerge elsewhere, including a possible one in Qom, an Iranian city where the country's semiofficial ILNA news agency cited a lawmaker in reporting a staggering 50 people had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
The Iranian Health Ministry rejected that, insisting the death toll remained at 12.
In Italy, where 219 people have tested positive for the virus and five have died, police manned checkpoints around a dozen quarantined northern towns as worries grew across the continent.

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