The World Health Organization (WHO) praised
China on Wednesday for its efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, but voiced "grave concern" about person-to-person spread in three other countries which led it to summon its Emergency Committee again.
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The panel of 16 independent experts will meet behind closed doors on Thursday for the third time in a week to consider whether the epidemic now constitutes a global emergency.
There are 6,065 cases worldwide, all but some 70 in China, with 132 deaths in China, according to the latest WHO figures.