; the first fatality in Europe. The coronavirus, thought to have emerged at a wildlife market in the central Chinese province of Hubei, has presented the ruling Communist Party with the huge challenge of halting its spread while at the same time minimising damage to the world’s second-largest economy.The National Health Commission on Sunday reported 2 009 new cases, down from 2 641 the previous day, and 142 new deaths, just one lower than the 143 the previous day.
“China should strengthen the unified leadership of efforts to control the epidemic,” President Xi Jinping said in comments reported by the Xinhua news agency. “We have to get our health system ready to face a possible pandemic propagation of the virus and therefore the spreading of the virus across France,” said Health Minister Agnes Buzyn.
Many factories are yet to re-open, disrupting supply chains in China and beyond for everyone from smartphone makers to car manufacturers. “We are concerned by the continued increase in the number of cases in China,” Tedros told the Munich Security Conference in Germany. “We are concerned by the lack of urgency in funding the response from the international community. Most of all, we are concerned about the potential havoc this virus could wreak in countries with weaker health systems.
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