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What is a Global health Emergency and what changes when it's declared?

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Hospital directors and provincial public health officials meet Source: AAP

The latest coronavirus outbreak in China has prompted questions about how a global public health emergency or PHEIC is determined by the World Health Organisation. The concept of the World Health Organisation declaring a global health emergency, first emerged after the SARS virus epidemic in 2003.



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