WHO warns over virus risk to young people

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland January 30, 2020. (Reuters)

• A number of countries were being driven by young people "letting down their guard"

GENEVA: The World Health Organization warned Thursday that spikes in coronavirus transmission in a number of countries were being driven by young people "letting down their guard".
"Young people are not invincible," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva, stressing that "Young people can get infected and young people can die... Young people must take the same precautions."