世界卫生组织(世卫组织)总干事特德罗斯·阿德诺姆·格布雷耶苏斯周一表示，这种新型冠状病毒的“最糟糕”还没有到来。
“相信我们。Ghebreyesus在新闻发布会上说:“最糟糕的时刻还在前面。“让我们阻止这场悲剧。这是一种许多人仍不了解的病毒。”
根据约翰·霍普金斯大学提供的一份追踪报告，在他发表评论的时候，导致呼吸道疾病COVID-19的新型冠状病毒继续在全球传播，感染了240多万人。该病毒还导致至少167，592人死亡。
“请让我们把那些正在死去的人看作个体，他们不是数字或数字。哪怕一条生命都是珍贵的，”盖布雷耶苏斯补充道。
在最近的新闻发布会上，Ghebreyesus将冠状病毒大流行与1918年西班牙流感大爆发相提并论，后者被认为是人类历史上最致命的大流行之一。
“这是一个非常危险的组合，这是百年来第一次发生，就像1918年导致1亿人死亡的流感，”世卫组织总干事说。“但现在我们有了技术，我们可以防止那场灾难，我们可以防止那种危机。”
Ghebreyesus还谈到了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)最近决定停止美国对该组织的资助，同时对世卫组织在处理疫情不当以及在病毒早期阶段不报告来自中国的准确信息方面的作用进行了评估。特朗普上周在白宫冠状病毒特别工作组的每日简报中宣布了这一决定。
2020年3月11日，世界卫生组织(世卫组织)总干事特德罗斯·阿德诺姆·格布雷耶苏斯在日内瓦世卫组织总部出席了关于新型冠状病毒引起的疾病COVID-19的每日新闻发布会。
特朗普上周在新闻发布会上表示:“我正指示我的政府停止对世界卫生组织的资助，同时进行一项评估，评估世界卫生组织在严重管理不善和掩盖冠状病毒传播方面可能存在的问题。”。“如果世界卫生组织尽了自己的职责，让医学专家进入中国，客观地评估当地的情况，并指出中国缺乏透明度，疫情本来可以在源头得到控制，死亡人数很少。”
在周一的新闻发布会上，Ghebreyesus反驳了这些说法，并指出世界卫生组织对冠状病毒的爆发并未保守任何秘密。
世卫组织总干事还提到了这样一个事实，即该组织有来自疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)的员工与世卫组织合作，他说，“这意味着从第一天起，美国就没有什么可隐瞒的。”
“我们的疾控中心同事也知道，我们会立即向任何人提供信息，”盖布雷耶苏斯补充道。
THE 'WORST' OF THE CORONAVIRUS IS STILL TO COME, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the "worst" of the novel coronavirus has yet to come.
"Trust us. The worst is yet ahead of us," Ghebreyesus said during a news briefing. "Let's prevent this tragedy. It's a virus that many people still don't understand."
His comments come at a time when the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19, continues to spread across the globe, infecting over 2.4 million people, according to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University. The virus has also caused at least 167,592 deaths.
"Please let's consider those who are dying as individuals, they are not numbers or figures. Even one life is precious," Ghebreyesus added.
During the recent news briefing, Ghebreyesus compared the coronavirus pandemic to the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak, which is considered one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
"It has a very dangerous combination and this is happening in a hundred years for the first time again, like the 1918 flu that killed up to 100 million people," the WHO director-general said. "But now we have technology, we can prevent that disaster, we can prevent that kind of crisis."
Ghebreyesus also touched on the recent decision by President Donald Trump to halt the country's funding to the organization, while a review into WHO's role in mishandling the outbreak and not reporting accurate information from China during the early stages of the virus. Trump announced the decision last week at a daily briefing from the White House's Coronavirus Task Force.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020.
"I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization possible in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus," Trump said at a press conference last week. "Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China's lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death."
During his press conference on Monday, Ghebreyesus disputed these claims and noted that WHO has not kept any secrets regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
The WHO director-general also touched on the fact that the organization has employees from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working with WHO, which, he said, "means there is nothing hidden from the U.S. from day one."
"Our CDC colleagues also know that we give information immediately to anyone," Ghebreyesus added.
