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The world is running out of masks and other gear to protect against the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization has warned.
The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told the organisation’s executive board in Geneva:
The world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment.
A woman from China has taken ill at Copenhagen airport, prompting a small area to be cordoned off.
The Copenhagen airport press officer Kenni Leth said the woman was transported to hospital by ambulance after arriving from China via Helsinki on Friday morning.
Given that the passenger contacted airport staff with influenza-like symptoms we, in accordance with procedures agreed with authorities, contacted emergency services and the passenger was picked up by ambulance.