Coronavirus: World Health Organisation plays down dip in daily infection rate, saying it might not mean outbreak has peaked

The World Health Organisation on Thursday cautioned against reading too much into data showing a dip in daily new coronavirus infections in China after the figure had surged for weeks.Michael Ryan, the head of the WHO’s health emergencies programme, said it was “too early to make predictions” on whether the outbreak had peaked, based on just one data point.“We are still in the middle of an intense outbreak and we need to be very careful about making any predictions,” Ryan told a daily briefing…