China’s President Xi Jinping has called the deadly epidemic a ‘devil’, but says he is confident Beijing will stop it. Meanwhile, both Japan and Germany have detected their first domestic transmission cases of the coronavirus.
The epidemic “is a devil and we cannot allow the devil to hide,” Xi told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus during their meeting in Beijing. Ghebreyesus praised China for its swift response in identifying the genome sequence and putting measures in place to curb the epidemic. The Chinese people are engaged in a “serious struggle,” Xi Jinping stressed, while alarming reports about the outbreak have been coming in from different parts of the world.
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