*The World Health Organization announced Thursday that the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus constitutes a global health emergency.
“Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of a previously unknown pathogen, which has escalated into an unprecedented outbreak and which has been met by an unprecedented response,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva, per npr.com.
Folks across social media are expressing their fears, concerns over the fast-spreading strain, including rapper 50 Cent, who had this to say on Instagram about the deadly illness, “I’m done with general tos chicken.” His comment accompanied an article about the viral outbreak, sohh.com reports.
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We previously reported…. health authorities believe this particular strain of the virus, known as 2019-nCoV, first spread from a wild animal sold at a seafood market in Wuhan, China.
50 Cent has suggested Trump ban the Chinese from entering America. “What da f**k is this? Trump gonna send these mother**kers back to china. Lol,” he wrote on Instagram.
In the post that has since been deleted, the Power” star added “Forget impeachment send this s**t back to China and we don’t remember the other bulls**t Trump ok?”
The new coronavirus has sickened more than 7,800 people worldwide and killed at least 170, all of them in China.
The WHO said in a statement that “all countries should be prepared for containment, including active surveillance, early detection, isolation and case management, contact tracing and prevention of onward spread” of the virus.
“There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade. WHO doesn’t recommend limiting trade and movement,” Tedros added.
The last time the WHO announced a global health emergency was in 2019 over the Ebola outbreak in the Congo.
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