Presser on #COVID19 at @WHO starting a bit earlier than usual today. New numbers first (as of 6 am Geneva time):
China:
78630 cases
2747 deaths
Outside China:
3474 cases
in 44 countries
54 deaths
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@drtedros posing questions now that he says every country has to ask itself, for instance: Do#healthworkers have training and equipment they need to stay safe? Do hospitals and clinics have right procedures to prevent and control#covid19 infections?Pokaż ten wątek -
Do people have right information? Do they know what disease looks like? Are we ready to treat patients with severe
#COVID19? Are we ready to fight rumours?@DrTedros: "If the answer to any of these questions is no, your country has a gap that this#coronavirus will exploit."Pokaż ten wątek -
Q: Will Tokyo Olympics be postponed?
@DrMikeRyan says it is his understanding that no decision will be taken in near term.Pokaż ten wątek -
Q: Iran says 26 deaths of
#covid19 which is 10 percent of reported cases there. How to explain this?@DrMikeRyan says the most likely answer is lack off surveillance. “We would expect as surveillance steps up more cases are identified on the milder end of the spectrum.” Indeed.Pokaż ten wątek -
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@juliaoftoronto asking whether diagnostic criteria should evolve given what has been learnt recently?@DrMikeRyan says@WHO will issue updated surveillance guidance and case definitions later today. “Best way is still a validated lab test”.Pokaż ten wątek -
Important statement by
@drmikeryan pushing back against idea that asymptomatic cases are driving#covid19 transmission. "This is becoming a myth”, he says. "The vast majority of transmission in this epidemic is occurring from symptomatic individuals to other individuals."Pokaż ten wątek
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Interestingly, Bruce Aylward talked about 320,000 samples in Guangdong the other day. He gave a different figure re the positives.
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