The World Health Organisation, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he will meet with the Chinese government and health experts supporting the coronavirus response.
Ghebreyesus, who stated this on his tweeter handle, said that he is already on his way to Beijing to meet with the government and health experts working in that regard.
Meanwhile, the UN health agency said the risk of spreading the infection was very high in China, high at the regional level, and moderate at the global level.
China has confirmed one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-seventy-five cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus, while the death toll from the virus has risen to 56. The virus originated from the central Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei in 2019 and has spread to other Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
It has also spread to the United States, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Australia, France and Canada.
