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From left, Maria van Kerkhove, Head of Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Professor Didier Houssin, the Chair of the Emergency Committee hold a press conference after an Emergency Committee meeting on what scientists have identified as a new coronavirus, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, January 22, 2020. Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new virus from China. Governments are stepping up surveillance of airline passengers from central China and taking other steps to try to control the outbreak. (Photo by Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Photo)
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