GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that the new coronavirus that has emerged in China and spread to several other countries does not yet constitute an international emergency but it was tracking its evolution “every minute”. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement after its Emergency Committee of 16 independent experts reviewed the latest evidence and made its recommendations, which he accepted. “Make no mistake, though, this is an emergency in China,” Tedros told a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva. “But it has not yet become a global health emergency. It may yet become one.” China put millions of people on lockdown on Thursday in two cities at the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 18 people and infected more than 630, as authorities around the world worked to prevent a global pandemic. Nick Note: The height of incompetency. The virus is spreading like wild fire. Of course they should declare a health emergency. At a time that diseases travel at damn near the speed of sound in those 747 disease incubators ALL ALL airports should screen ALL passengers and people from patient zero land in China sholud face at least 48 hour quarantine when they arrive anywhere in the world…..