Home/ WHO Director-General/ Speeches/ Detail/ WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 11 March 2020 Good afternoon. In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled. There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives. Thousands m
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