Name: 冠狀病毒。世衛組織表示，世界必須為大流行做好準備 - BBC News (Coronavirus: World must prepare for pandemic, says WHO - BBC News)
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Now there are fears that the Corona virus outbreak could become a pandemic.

We now know there confirmed cases in 35 countries.

But is an update from the BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh saying the combined situation in South Korea, Iran and Italy point to the early stages of a pandemic pandemic being when a disease has spread worldwide.

Here's the assessment of the World Health Organization.

This is not the time to focus on what word we use that will not prevent a single infection today or save a single life today.

This is a time for all countries, communities, families and individuals to focus on preparing.

We do not live in a binary black and white world.

It's not either or we must focus on containment while doing everything we can to prepare for a potential pandemic.

Look at the statistics The Corona virus has overtaken the 2003 SARS epidemic on the Middle Eastern respect, rescind OMERS in both the number of cases by far and also the number of deaths to the SARS outbreak lasted around eight months.

He's the W H o again on why it is very difficult to put a time frame on this.

Fires we don't know is what the reality will be in two months or in six months time.

There is still a possibility that we can contain the virus and interrupted trans interrupted transmission.

But the virus may settle down into an endemic pattern of transmission into a seasonal pattern and transmission or could accelerate into a full blown global pandemic.

And at this point, it is not possible to say which of those realities is going toe is going to happen.

Well, it leap is one of the countries where numbers are escalating.

They're being more than 200 new cases since Friday.

Several towns in Lombardy and Veneto are on lock down.

That means around 50,000 people cannot leave without permission on you.

See how that's working in these pictures.

This is a police roadblock that's been stepped up to stop people moving in or out.

This is just outside a town called herself was the lingo.

If you go a little bit further north, well, this is a train heading through the Alps, but it was stopped from crossing from Italy into Austria because two passengers were suspected of having the virus.

Hours later, they're tested negative on the train was able to continue next.

These pictures are from Milan, and just look at these empty shelves.

That's because people have been stocking up on food and supplies.

They want to be ready in case a lock down is imposed here, too.

And already the city is taking different types of action.

It's famous cathedrals being closed, as have some schools and some universities.

Well, it's focused on one town that is locked down the town of Kodo.

No, just the southeast of Milan on the BBC's Marlowe in.

Well, this is the exclusion zone now on the road to code on your the center of the outbreak and you can see they're stopping a ll.

The cars trying to enter here and all those trying to leave depends where they've got me.

They've got the authorization as to whether they can pass through and the Carabinieri on military air deciding whether or not to widen this exclusion zone in an attempt to control the Corona virus spread.

And Ma's been using his phone to speak to some of the residents who are stuck on the other side of that barrier, a feel a bit abandoned.

Some convince themselves it will blow over.

And it's a set of one school teacher, also in a town which is locked down.

We can walk our dogs, We can go jogging, We can ride bikes.

But authorities suggested tow us to avoid contact with other people.

We know that we may be infected and that we may already have contracted the Corona virus on.

We wait for these days to pass by living day by day.

If these symptoms appear, we know what we have to do, hoping that the emergency numbers are free to call because from what I know, it is really difficult to contact the health professionals.

It's got a little bit further south just outside the locked down area to place could be a chancer on BBC's Bethany Bell.

Well, certainly there is a lot of concern.

We've been wandering around Piacenza today.

People concerned about the possible spread of this.

They don't know how long quarantine in neighboring towns is going to last four, where just a few kilometers away from the exclusion zone here, a lot of the cafes and restaurant owners that we've spoken to here.

So they're worried about the impact on their business.

Very few people out and about, and in some areas a bit closer to the exclusion zone.

The cafes and restaurants are completely shut.

Was made from Italy to South Korea, has the largest number of infections outside of China, over 830.

And most of those are linked to a religious group in the city of Diego, right in the south of South Korea.

That's how many people are in this queue.

It's outside a supermarket, and all of these people want to buy surgical masks and other supplies.

Well, the BBC's Laura Baker is being in Dig you over the weekend here.

She explains how technology is being used in an effort to restrict this virus.

They're using your phone to locate where you are, and then they'll send you an emergency alert if you're anywhere near where.

Ah confirmed Corona virus patient has bean.

Well, let's shift now from South Korea to the Middle East because we have a number of new infections and deaths across the region in Afghanistan, Amon, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq as well, all reporting the first cases.

We know that those cases are linked to a cluster of cases in Iran sent it around.

The religious city of Comb, which is just to the south of Tehran, is visited by millions of Shia Muslim pilgrims every year.

Here's Rana Ryan bore from BBC Persian on what we know about what's happening in the city.

There are introducing some measures about the security in the shrine, the shrine that a Shia shrine there.

And they say they said that there won't be any public prayers anymore for a while, and they put some some offenses between the shrine, so people that don't touch it.

But the problem is that they are lacking infrastructure and they're lacking accurate reporting.

Let's look at that last point because the official death toll in Iran is currently 13.

But a parliamentarian who represents calm is claiming that the true figure is at least 50 in the city alone and he's accusing the authorities of lying about the extent of the problem.

The deputy health minister has responded, saying.

If the number of deaths in calm ridges half or 1/4 of this figure, I will resign.

But that local parliamentarian has responded.

I've given the names of 40 dead people to the deputy minister.

At least in seven provinces in Iran, there have been confirmed cases off coronavirus on many of them are religious hotbed, So the foreign since the city off Mashhad, which hosts one off the shrine's off the off the shears that is open on Dhe there.

The authorities haven't even confirmed any cases in Mashhad, but we know that Kuwait that evacuated 700 people off its people have confirmed that there were three cases that that had come from Iran, but that trying is open tonight.

Thousands of people are celebrating a Shia Shia celebration on they are just next to each other celebrating this event.

It's unbelievable how many people are there while we know that there is growing a virus and how and you and your colleagues of BBC Persian getting good information about the virus inside Iran.

Given that it's hard to get good information on anything connected to the government, it's very difficult.

The numbers that we heat we hear from our viewers is far more than what the Iranian authorities are confirming and there are.

It's a serious concern because they say 61 confirmed cases and 13 people have died.

But what people are telling me is far more than that.

And when the ratio between the confirmed cases and deaths it's much higher than the rest of the world.

So it's about nearly 20% off people have been killed so that this shows that there's a lack of transparency.