Home/ WHO Director-General/ Speeches/ Detail/ WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 3 March 2020 Good afternoon, and thank you once again for joining us in person and also online. Today is my birthday, and I’ve been given a very good gift from DRC, from my own continent Africa. We have now had two weeks without a single reported case of Ebola, and there are cur