The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday
WHO: World faces chronic shortage of coronavirus protective equipment
As of 6 a.m.
Geneva time (0500 GMT) there were 31,211 confirmed cases in China and 637 deaths, he said.
"For the last two days there had been fewer reported infections in China, which is good news, but we caution against reading too much into that.
The numbers could go up again," he told the WHO Executive Board in Geneva.
WHO top emergencies expert, Mike Ryan, warned at the meeting that the "unnecessary and unhelpful profiling" of individuals based on ethnicity outside China should be stopped.