World Health Organization holds press conference

World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference Friday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak.  the WHO said COVID-19 had spread substantially beyond China and was circulating in over 44 countries.

Epidemics have emerged in Iran, Italy and South Korea, where the number of cases are rapidly rising every day. "We're at a decisive point," WHO's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday.