World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

27 Feb 2020: The Director-General of the World Health Organisation on Thursday warned that no country in the world should assume that it’s safe from the new virus. “No country should assume it won’t get cases. That could be a fatal mistake, and quite literally,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva.

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9 Marzo 2020: “The bottom line is: we’re not at the mercy of the virus.” “The threat of a pandemic has become very real,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. “But, it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled.”

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Marzo 11 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, a pandemic. We have rung the alarm bell loud and clear. WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement at a press conference Wednesday.

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Marzo 13 2020: Europe Has Now Become The Epicenter Of The Pandemic. Any country thinking “that won’t happen to us, is making a deadly mistake,” warned World Health.

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Marzo 18 2020: More laboratories are needed. Think in innovative ways to fight this virus.

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Marzo 20 2020: “Today I have a message for young people: You are not invincible, this virus could put you in hospital for weeks or even kill you. Even if you don’t get sick the choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and death for someone else,”. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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