World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said COVID-19's mortality rate was 3.4% of all reported infections, compared with the 1% rate for seasonal flu. .

World Health Organization (WHO) General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - Photo: REUTERS

However, speaking at a press conference on the evening of March 3 (Vietnam time), Mr. Tedros said that COVID-19 is not spread by flu and can be controlled.

"In short, COVID-19 is not as strong as the flu, the infection is unlikely to be caused by people who are not infected. It causes more illness than flu, there is no vaccine or cure yet. And it can be contained. invented it "- Reuters news agency quoted Mr. Tedros as saying.

Mike Ryan, Director of the emergency program of WHO, also said that control of the disease is still within reach. "Things seemed worse before they got better" - Mr. Ryan said of the serious epidemic situation in Iran and South Korea.

Reuters news agency quoted WHO leaders as saying at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, said only 1% of cases of COVID-19 infections in China, the country that accounts for the majority of cases worldwide, do not have symptom.

"Most cases have symptoms within two days" - Mr. Tedros said. There has been concern over the past few years that the new strain of corona virus can spread to healthy looking people.

WHO also confirmed that the number of new infections in China has decreased over the past time is "real". "We asked about these numbers while in China, we have carefully reviewed the numbers and we believe this reduction is real" - Maria Van Kerkhove, technical team leader of the emergency program WHO, confirms.

However, Van Kerkhove did not say whether the COVID-19 epidemic in China has reached its peak.

Before that, on 2-3 days, Mr. Tedros still believed that the epidemic COVID-19 could still be controlled. "This is not a one-way street. We can still reverse the translation of COVID-19" - he said. He also repeated that the WHO has not declared COVID-19 a pandemic. "WHO will not hesitate to recognize this if there is enough evidence, but not currently," - he said.

Source: tuoitre.vn