Impossible to Predict What Direction Coronavirus Epidemic Will Take: WHO Chief

A worker wearing a protective suit gestures to a driver outside a tumor hospital newly designated to treat COVID-19 patients in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Feb. 15, 2020. Chinatopix via AP

No one can predict what direction the new coronavirus epidemic will take, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.

“Let me be clear: It is impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the Munich Security Conference in Germany.