世界卫生组织(世卫组织)紧急委员会将在不到两个月的时间内第二次召开会议，决定一种致命新病毒的神秘爆发是否应被归类为国际公共卫生危机，因为这种病毒已经蔓延到中国大陆的每个地区。
该委员会此前于1月22日召开会议，决定此次疫情不构成国际关注的公共卫生紧急事件。根据世卫组织的一份声明，该小组“表达了不同的观点”，但“同意形势的紧迫性”，并在随后几天再次开会。
当专家们试图了解这种新型病毒的特征以便创造诊断工具、治疗和疫苗，世卫组织国际卫生条例紧急委员会将于今天举行第三次会议，就是否宣布国际公共卫生紧急情况向总干事提出建议。
世卫组织总干事特德罗斯·阿德诺姆·格布雷耶苏斯讨论了疫情与中国国家主席习近平主席周一，在宣布会议的推特帖子中，似乎谨慎地试图缓解恐惧。
Ghebreyesus强调，在中国最近的大多数冠状病毒病例中，“只有1%，即68例”，在其他15个国家有记录。据报道，中国境外的病例发生在曾去过那里或曾与到过那里的人接触过的人身上。
西藏周三确认了首例该病毒病例，这意味着感染已经蔓延到中国大陆的所有地区。在澳门、香港和十几个国家，包括美国、加拿大、泰国、日本、新加坡、澳大利亚、阿拉伯联合酋长国和斯里兰卡，也发现了患者Statista表演。虽然疑似病例已经过检测，但这种病毒似乎还没有到达非洲。
截至1月27日，这种新型冠状病毒已经在全球范围内被发现。
这种新的冠状病毒被称为2019-nCoV，迄今已在7783例病例中杀死170人。死亡集中在中国大陆，主要是湖北省，武汉市食品批发市场的工人去年底开始生病。冠状病毒最初被认为通过在买卖活的和死的动物的市场上，从动物到人，然后从人到人传播。
“但是在3个国家之外的一些人与人之间的传播已经被记录下来。这种进一步全球扩散的可能性就是我为什么打电话给欧共体[紧急委员会的原因。“我担心新的冠状病毒爆发对卫生系统的影响。现在是流感季节，许多人很担心&许多人生病了。”
世卫组织负责人还赞扬了医疗工作者的努力，以及“中国领导层的决心&是人民要终结新的#冠状病毒爆发。"
世卫组织称，当疾病的“严重、异常或意外”传播被视为在国际范围内危及公共健康，并可能需要协调一致的国际应对措施时，就称为紧急情况。
如果盖布雷耶苏斯认为冠状病毒是一个足够严重的威胁，委员会将提出临时建议，建议中国采取这些建议来帮助阻止这种疾病的传播。
东英吉利亚大学英国诺里奇医学院健康保护教授保罗·亨特告诉记者新闻周刊他对过去几天报告病例的快速增加以及病毒可以在症状出现前传播的证据感到担忧。
他说:“尽管随着筛查、诊断和报告效率的提高，新病例报告的一部分将是赶上实际病例数的统计数据。”。
为了应对疫情，中国已经有效地封锁了武汉并实施旅行限制。当被问及该州是否采取了足够的措施应对疫情时，亨特说很难知道，但他补充说，该州已经实施了“可能是我职业生涯中一个国家采取的最严格的流行病控制措施”
亨特说:“控制像这样的流行病的传播总是个人权利和疾病潜在威胁之间的平衡。”无论你做什么，你都不会受到社会某一阶层的欢迎。"
2020年1月28日，中国澳门，戴口罩的居民走在街上。世界卫生组织的一个委员会今天将开会决定一种新冠状病毒的爆发是否构成国际关注的公共卫生紧急情况。
WHO IS ABOUT TO DECIDE WHETHER CORONAVIURS IS GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY AS WUHAN PNEUMONIA CONTINUES TO SPREAD
A World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee will convene for the second time in less than two months to decide whether the mysterious outbreak of a deadly new virus should be classed as an international public health crisis, as the bug has spread to every region of mainland China.
The committee previously convened on January 22 and decided the outbreak did not constitute a public health emergency of international concern. According to a WHO statement, the group "expressed divergent views," but "agreed on the urgency of the situation" and to meet again in the following days.
As experts attempt to gain an understanding of the characteristics of the novel virus in order to create diagnostic tools, treatments, and vaccines, the WHO's International Health Regulations Emergency Committee will meet today for a third time to advise its Director-General on whether to declare an international public health emergency.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who discussed the outbreak with Chinese president President Xi Jinping on Monday, appeared to cautiously try to ease fears in a Twitter thread announcing the meeting.
Ghebreyesus highlighted that in most of the recent coronavirus cases in China, "just 1 percent, or 68 cases," have been recorded in 15 other countries. Cases outside China have been reported in people who have either travelled there or have been in contact with someone who has.
Tibet confirmed its first case of the virus on Wednesday, meaning the infection has reached all regions of mainland China. Patients have also been identified in Macau, Hong Kong, and over a dozen countries including the U.S., Canada, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and Sri Lanka, as this infographic from Statista shows. Although suspected cases have been tested, the virus does not appear to have reached Africa.
Where the novel coronavirus has been detected around the world as of January 27.
The new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, has so far killed 170 people in 7,783 cases. The deaths are concentrated in mainland China, predominately in Hubei province where workers at a wholesale food market in the city of Wuhan started to fall ill late last year. The coronavirus is thought to have initially passed from animals to humans in the market where live and dead animals were sold, and later transmitted from human-to-human.
"But some person-to-person transmission in 3 countries outside of has been recorded. This potential for further global spread is why I called the EC [Emergency Committee]," Ghebreyesus said. "I am concerned about the impact the new #coronavirus outbreak is having on the health system. It is flu season, many people are worried & many are sick."
The head of the WHO also praised healthcare workers for their efforts, as well as "the determination of Chinese leadership & it's people to end the new #coronavirus outbreak."
An emergency is called when the "serious, unusual, or unexpected" spread of a disease is deemed to endanger public health on an international scale, and could require a coordinated international response, according to the WHO.
If Ghebreyesus decides coronavirus is a serious enough threat, the committee will offer temporary recommendations that China is advised to adopt to help stop the disease from spreading.
Paul Hunter, a professor of health protection at U.K's Norwich School of Medicine, University of East Anglia, told Newsweek he was worried by the rapid increase in reported cases during the past few days and evidence that the virus can spread before symptoms have developed.
"Although a proportion of new case reports will be the stats catching up with the actual number of cases as screening, diagnosis and reporting becomes more efficient," he said.
In response to the outbreak, China has effectively put Wuhan into lockdown and put travel restrictions in place. Asked whether the state is doing enough to tackle the outbreak, Hunter said it's difficult to know but added the state has carried out "probably the most rigorous epidemic control measures done by a country in my working life."
"Controlling the spread of an epidemic like this one is always a balance of individuals' rights against the potential threat from the disease," Hunter said. "Whatever you do you will not be popular with one section of society or another."
Residents wearing face masks walk on a street on January 28, 2020 in Macau, China. A committee of the World Health Organization will meet today to decide whether the outbreak of a new coronavirus constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
