'To put it bluntly, we're shadow boxing,' Tedros said Thursday. 'We need to bring this virus out into the light so we can attack it properly.'
World Health Organization officials are holding a news briefing Friday to update the public on the new coronavirus outbreak.
[The stream is slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] "There's still a lot we don't know," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization,While scientists have made progress in sequencing the virus's DNA and generally know how it is transmitted, he said they still don't know the source of the outbreak or its natural host. The agency also hasn't found a vaccine or treatment, "and we don't properly understand its transmissibility or severity," he said.
On Wednesday, Tedros said that the number of confirmed cases grew by more than 3,100 over the previous 24 hours, which he said wasHowever, he emphasized that the overwhelming majority of cases are in China, and of those, 80% are in Hubei province, where the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan.
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