A man uses a thermometer to check the temperature of a journalist covering a meeting between Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on Jan. 28, 2020. Naohiko Hatta/Pool via Reuters
The World Health Organization’s emergency committee will meet again to assess the global threat from the new coronavirus, the organization’s leader said on Jan. 29.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the committee would meet on Thursday to advise him on whether the coronavirus outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
