Virus, affecting 2 dozen countries, doesn't yet constitute a ‘Pandemic’: WHO

According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has spread from China to two dozen countries, does not yet constitute a "pandemic". "Currently we are not in a pandemic," Sylvie Briand, head of WHO's Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness division, told reporters in Geneva. Meanwhile, Hong Kong became the second place outside China to report a death due to Coronavirus.