FILE PHOTO: Executive Director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) emergencies program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Phot
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Thursday downplayed the danger of the coronavirus latching on to food packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain.
"People should not fear food, food packaging or delivery of food," WHO head of emergencies programme Mike Ryan told a briefing.
"There is no evidence the food chain is participating in transmission of this virus."
