World Health Organization officials are holding a news conference scheduled Monday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020.The World Health Organization's top official criticized some nations for not doing enough to detect and contain the deadly coronavirus that's infected more than 174,000 people across the world.
"We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test. Test every suspected case, if they test positive, isolate them and find out who they have been in contact with two days before they developed symptoms and test those people, too", Tedros said. At the beginning of the outbreak, the CDC limited testing to people who had recently traveled to China and showed symptoms, or people who were symptomatic and exposed to someone with a confirmed case. The agency has sinceto include people showing symptoms who are already in the hospital or with underlying health conditions.
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