LATEST: More than 77,600 confirmed cases of coronavirus in China as the death toll passes 2,600.
but has the potential to become one if countries don't work together to slow its spread, the World Health Organization said Monday.
A team of experts with the WHO has concluded its mission in China, reporting that the epidemic there reached its peak between Jan. 23 and Feb. 2 and that the number of cases have since been steadily declining. However,"the sudden increases of cases in Italy, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Korea are deeply concerning," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing. —
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