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WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 28 February 2020

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Good afternoon to everyone online and in the room. First, as usual, the numbers: In the past 24 hours, China reported 329 cases – the lowest in more than a month.

As of 6am Geneva time this morning, China has reported a total of 78,959 cases of COVID-19 to WHO, including 2791 deaths. Outside China, there are now 4351 cases in 49 countries, and 67 deaths.

Since yesterday, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Netherlands and Nigeria have all reported their first cases. All these cases have links to Italy.

24 cases have been exported from Italy to 14 countries, and 97 cases have been exported from Iran to 11 countries. The continued increase in the number of cases, and the number of affected countries over the last few days, are clearly of concern.

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