Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (R) speaks at a press conference after a closed-door meeting of the Emergency Committee at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it was "too early" to declare the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). (Xinhua/Liu Qu)