World Health Organization to convene over coronavirus outbreak

The director general of the World Health Organization announced that he would reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Thursday to advise him on whether the deadly coronavirus outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC. Last week, the committee found it was too soon to make such a declaration. A flight carrying 195 passengers fleeing the source of the outbreak – the Chinese city of Wuhan – landed in California on Wednesday after an emotional stopover in Alaska. All those passengers voluntarily agreed to remain at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, for monitoring, health authorities said. The death toll in China rose to at least 170 on Thursday. 

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