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The World Health Organization announced today that all available evidence indicates that the new coronavirus originated from bats in China late last year and has not been manipulated or created in a laboratory, according to BNR.

US President Donald Trump said last week that his government was trying to determine if the virus was created in a lab in Wuhan.

U.S. President Donald Trump said last week that his government was trying to determine whether the virus emanated from a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic emerged in December.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 15 said he "regrets" the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to cut funding to the international health agency.

The coronavirus pandemic should not be an excuse for human rights abuses, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned today.

The United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees signed in Geneva in 1951, and amended by the Protocol signed in New York in 1967, defines a refugee as "someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion."

Young people are not immune from coronavirus and must avoid socialising and communicating it to older, more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, the BBC reported.

The choices made by the young can be "the difference between life and death for someone else", WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The World Health Organization called on all countries on March 16 to ramp up their testing programs as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, and also urged companies to boost production of vital equipment to overcome acute shortages.

There are already more fatal cases in the rest of the world than in China, the World Health Organization announced on Monday.

"More deaths and deaths have been reported in the rest of the world than in China," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva without citing recent data.

World Health Organization chairman Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 for a pandemic.

This happened at a briefing in Geneva.

"In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled.  

"We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction", it is said in WHO statement.
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on Wednesday as the new coronavirus has rapidly spread to more than 121.000 people from Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States.