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COVID-19 TIMELINE - WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (<strong>WHO</strong>) / AUSTRALIA / CHINA<br />
28 January 2020<br />
<strong>WHO</strong> <strong>timeline</strong><br />
<strong>WHO</strong>’s Tedros meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss the latest developments in the 2019-nCoV<br />
outbreak. <strong>China</strong> agrees for <strong>WHO</strong> to send in international experts to help increase global understanding of the outbreak<br />
and guide response efforts.<br />
28 January 2020<br />
<strong>China</strong> <strong>timeline</strong><br />
29 January 2020<br />
<strong>WHO</strong> <strong>timeline</strong><br />
29 January<br />
2020<br />
<strong>Aust</strong> <strong>timeline</strong><br />
29 January 2020<br />
<strong>China</strong> <strong>timeline</strong><br />
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with <strong>WHO</strong> Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Beijing.<br />
"The epidemic is a devil. We will not let it hide," Xi said, stressing the Chinese government has released information<br />
about the epidemic in a timely, open, transparent and responsible manner, actively responded to concerns of all sides,<br />
and enhanced cooperation with the international community.<br />
Xi noted that <strong>China</strong> is ready to work with the <strong>WHO</strong> as well as the international community to safeguard regional and<br />
global public health security.<br />
The NHC released the third-edition guidelines on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia.<br />
Tedros decides to reconvene the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Thursday for advice on<br />
whether to declare the 2019-nCoV outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. The announcement<br />
comes just a week after Tedros initially refrained from declaring the outbreak an emergency. As 2019-nCoV cases grow<br />
in number and spread to more countries.<br />
<strong>Aust</strong>ralian scientists announce they have successfully grown 2019-nCoV in the laboratory, which can be helpful in<br />
improving diagnosis of the virus<br />
7 cases<br />
Morrison: <strong>Aust</strong>ralians should have confidence we are ready ready and well prepared to deal with this<br />
Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, also head of the Office of the Foreign<br />
Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, spoke over phone with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<br />
Pompeo expressed appreciation for <strong>China</strong>'s timely response to U.S. concerns after the epidemic.<br />
The <strong>China</strong> CDC published an epidemiological feature analysis of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in the New<br />
England Journal of Medicine.<br />
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