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WHO Chief Urges Saving Protective Gear for Coronavirus Health Care Workers

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   World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged people
   throughout the world Tuesday to stop stockpiling masks and other
   protective gear, saying they are needed by health workers who are
   fighting the coronavirus.

   "We are concerned that countries' abilities to respond are being
   compromised by the severe and increasing disruption to the global
   supply of personal protective equipment caused by rising demand,
   hoarding and misuse," Tedros said during his daily briefing on the
   virus.
   One day after declaring the world is "in uncharted territory" and that
   the accelerated spread of the virus in South Korea, Italy, Iran and
   Japan is the world's greatest threat, Tedros said, "shortages are
   leaving doctors, nurses and other frontline health workers dangerously
   ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients."

   Tedros explained that both the coronavirus and the common seasonal flu
   cause respiratory problems and are spread the same way, but that the
   coronavirus does not spread as efficiently.

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