On February 15th local time, WHO held a regular press conference on new coronary pneumonia . WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the number of new confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia worldwide has declined for the fifth consecutive week, and the number of new confirmed cases last week was the lowest in a single week since October last year. Since the beginning of this year, the number of new cases worldwide has dropped by nearly half, from more than 5 million new confirmed cases in the week of January 4 to 2.6 million in the week of February 8. Tedros pointed out that this shows that even if there is a mutated coronavirus, simple public health measures can work. He said: "What is important now is how to deal with this trend. The epidemic has not ended yet, but the scale has decreased. If we stop fighting it, it will make a comeback. The decrease in the number of new confirmed cases every day means that corresponding medical measures have saved lives, avoided pain, and the burden on the health system has also been reduced." (Central Taiwan reporter Zhu He)
(Editor Xu Qian)
