Virus knows no borders! WHO officials and business leader support the view

Virus knows no borders and is the humanity's common enemy demanding a joint response from the international community. The view is shared by WHO officials and a business leader.

"Viruses know no borders, and they don't care your ethnicity or the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank," Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, told a news conference on Wednesday in response to some U.S. politicians calling COVID-19 a "Chinese virus."

"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing in Geneva on Feb. 12.

"We should not call this the Chinese virus," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on Wednesday.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)