During a briefing in Geneva today, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared that Europe is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

“More cases are now being reported [in Europe] every day than were reported in China at the height of its epidemic,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference at the organization’s Geneva headquarters.