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World Health Organisation declares global health emergency due to coronavirus outbreak | South China Morning Post

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On January 30, 2020, the United Nations’ World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV and the novel coronavirus, a global emergency.

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