Coronavirus outbreak: WHO says pattern in virus has not changed despite death toll increase

World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that while the number of deaths from the new novel coronavirus had increased to 909 in China as of 6 a.m. in Geneva, Switzerland, the pattern of the illness had not changed with 99 per cent of cases being in China with most being mild. He said two per cent are still fatal, which is “still too many.”