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For any copyright, please send me a message. The coronavirus outbreak could be the feared "Disease X" that experts have warned about, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) adviser. Prof Marion Koopmans, head of viroscience at Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, said the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, is "rapidly becoming the first true pandemic challenge that fits the Disease X category". The WHO revealed in February 2018 that it was preparing for an unknown international epidemic dubbed "Disease X". In its list of research and development priorities, the agency said it represented "the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease". In developments elsewhere: Italy hunts coronavirus superspreader as 'seventh person dies' of COVID-19.Britons under quarantine after being flown back from Japan have expressed anger that others on the repatriation flight have since tested positive for the virus.Sky News is updating this interactive article in real time, with the latest infection figures.Global stock markets are falling sharply as a result of the outbreak, threatening to inflict deeper damage to the worldwide economy.Coronavirus: What is a pandemic and how can it be stopped?Chinese SWAT teams are filmed throwing nets over people as they practise how to deal with unco-operative coronavirus patients. Writing in the journal Cell, Prof Koopmans said: "Whether it will be contained or not, this outbreak is rapidly becoming the first true pandemic challenge that fits the Disease X category, listed to the WHO's priority list of diseases for which we need to prepare in our current globalised society. "Initial resemblances with the SARS outbreak in terms of its origin, the disease associated with infection, and the ability to spread are clear. "But since 2003, global air travel has increased more than 10-fold, and the efforts needed to try to contain the epidemic are daunting." Meanwhile, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said the global spread of the virus was not "uncontained". "Using the word pandemic doesn't fit the facts. We must focus on containment while preparing for a potential pandemic," he added. "Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely, yes. But for the moment we're not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this virus." Listen to "Italy becomes centre of European COVID-19 outbreak | 24 February 2020" on Spreaker. :: Listen to the Daily podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker Prof Koopmans said key knowledge gaps were being assessed "on the fly" and public health experts were "wasting precious time writ
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