WHO to convene emergency meeting on coronavirus today*

*WHO to convene emergency meeting on coronavirus today*

 The _World Health Organisation_ *(WHO)* will convene an emergency meeting on coronavirus today, said its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan said, he hopes that the much talked about drug -- remdesevir -- and other drugs prove helpful in COVID-19 treatment.

WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11th. According to the statistics collected by Johns Hopkins University, more than 3,150,000 coronavirus cases have been recorded globally.