Former WHO Official: China is doing whatever possible to contain coronavirus

The death toll caused by the novel coronavirus emanating from the central Chinese city of Wuhan has surpassed 300, and the confirmed cases have reached over 14,000.

"So far based on the information that I can gather from the public media, or as well as from my former colleagues, this is a fast-moving infection. The best evidence available is that is coming from a bat. Now, whether or not there is an intermediary host, we still need to do more work to find out," said Margaret Chan, former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), in an exclusive interview with CGTN.

Chan said that the good news is the case fatality rate is not as high as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which broke out across Asia back in 2003. "So I commend China for their very decisive action to bring in a whole [set] of preventive measures to contain and to control the outbreak," added the former WHO official.

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Former WHO Official: China is doing whatever possible to contain coronavirus