GENEVA (Xinhua): Different from SARS, MERS or influenza, the novel coronavirus which causes Covid-19 is 'a unique virus with unique characteristics,' the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said here on Tuesday (March 4).
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gestures during a daily press briefing on Covid-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 2, 2020. - AFP
"We are understanding this virus and the disease it causes more and more," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He stressed that evidence from China showed that most of the reported cases develop symptoms within two days and only one per cent have no symptoms. Although no vaccine and no specific treatment are available for Covid-19 so far, Tedros noted that more than 20 vaccines are in development globally, and several therapeutics are in clinical trials.
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