GENEVA: The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday the world is at a “decisive point” to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak as new cases outside China had outnumbered that inside the country.

“We are at a decisive point,” said WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a daily briefing. “For the past two days, the number of new cases reported in the rest of the world has exceeded the number of new cases in China.”

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