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Coronavirus Is Declared a Global Health Emergency as Threat Rises Outside China

February 1, 2020

The designation comes as the first person-to-person transmission of the virus is reported in the U.S.


In a news conference Thursday, the director-general of the World Health Organization called the coronavirus outbreak “unprecedented” and declared a global public-health emergency. Photo: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

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