Europe is now the center of coronavirus pandemic, death toll has passed 5,000 – WHO chief

13 Mar, 2020 16:02 / Updated 1 minute ago

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The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has now surpassed 5,000 and Europe has become the center of the outbreak, the head of the World Health Organization has said.

WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the death toll passed the “tragic milestone” at Friday’s daily briefing.

Tedros noted that Europe has become the center of outbreak and warned world governments that a raft of measures are needed to tackle the disease. He said that any country that thinks it could not fall victim to a large outbreak of the Covid-19 illness is making a “deadly mistake”.

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