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China shows COVID-19 Coronavirus can be ‘stopped in its tracks’

China shows COVID-19 Coronavirus can be ‘stopped in its tracks’ Photo courtesy of Yingshi Zhang Medical equipment supplied by the World Food Programme (WFP) arrives in Beijing.         16 March 2020 Health China’s experience in containing the spread of the new coronavirus could serve as a lesson for other countries now facing the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official with the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has told  UN News  in an in-depth interview.  While more than 153,00 cases of the respiratory illness have been recorded globally as of Sunday, it is on the decline in China, demonstrating that the course of the outbreak there has been altered, according to  WHO  Representative in the country, Dr. Gauden Galea.   “It is an epidemic that has been nipped as it was g...