The World Health Organization today corrected its assessment of the magnitude of the threat posed by the new coronavirus, calling it "high" internationally rather than "moderate", as it has so far written in its reports due to a "misstatement". as he admitted.
To date, the WHO has written that the risk is "very high in China, high regionally and moderately international".
"This is a wording error and we have corrected it," a spokeswoman for the Geneva-based organization told AFP.
"This does not mean that we have changed the assessment of the risk, but this mistake has been avoided," the official added.
The WHO has published six reports since the crisis began.
As of Tuesday, January 23, it has been conducting a risk assessment.
In its sixth report on the situation, published Sunday night to Monday, the WHO corrected its analysis, confirming that "its risk assessment (…) has not changed (…): too high in China, high regionally and internationally high. "
"It was a mistake in the wording of the reports of 23, 24 and 25 January, which we corrected," the spokeswoman told AFP.
This correction does not change the fact that the WHO does not consider the epidemic to be an "international public health emergency".
Source: RES-EAP