WHO: Global Risk of Corona "HIGH"

The World Health Organization has announced that the global risk of Corona virus has become "high".

WHO has so far declined to declare the dangerous respiratory disease a global health emergency, despite the spread of the infection from China to at least 10 other countries and the increasing death toll.

The virus has infected more than 2000 people and killed 81.

The news came after the director of the organizations arrived to China to discuss the outbreak of corona virus. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO's Director, said he would hold talks with Chinese officials and health experts about the deadly virus outbreak, noting that he hoped "to strengthen the partnership" with Beijing "regarding providing more protection in the face of this outbreak."

Earlier today, the National Committee for Development and Reform ( NCDR) has decided to allot ¥ 60.33 billion ( $8.74 billion) to help contain the deadly virus.

In a new warning, scientists have warned that the deadly Corona virus, which is rapidly sweeping the world, can be transmitted through the eyes.

The famous Chinese doctor Wang Guangfa, who helped his country fight the deadly SARS virus in 2003,  shocked the world by revealing the possibility of contracting the new strain of the Coronavirus.

The doctor, who led a team of experts to Wuhan, center of outbreak, said he might have been infected "because he was not wearing protective glasses, while visiting the infected patients", and that the virus could enter through the eye if it was touched by a patient's hand.

"The Daily Mail" quoted experts as confirming this hypothesis and that respiratory infections may occur by eye. "Face masks protect the mouth and nose and will not protect the eyes," the experts reveal.

After returning from Wuhan, the Chinese doctor had conjunctivitis (or as it is known as the pink eye) in his left eye, and after about three hours he had a fever and severe catarrh, according to the British newspaper "Mirror".