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WHO: World Needs to Be on Alert for Dangers Posed by Coronavirus

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - For the third time in one week, a World Health Organization
   Emergency Committee will meet to decide whether the new coronavirus
   poses a global health threat. The latest number of confirmed cases has
   risen to 7,700, including 170 deaths.

   The two previous emergency meetings ended inconclusively. WHO experts
   were split on whether the spread of the coronavirus was large enough to
   constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. But this
   quickly evolving disease may change some of the doubters' minds.

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