The Committee’s role is to give advice to the Director-General, who makes the final decision on the determination of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). members of the Emergency Committee expressed divergent views on whether this event constitutes a PHEIC or. At that time, the advice was that the event did not constitute a PHEIC
法新社報導，世衛組織也公布最新資料，顯示共有2014起病例，幾乎都在中國。根據路透社消息，中國有關當局稱境內已有2051人感染，死亡56例。
2019新型冠狀病毒（2019-nCoV）已造成全球超過2000人感染，56人喪命，但絕大多數的病例與因病去世者都在中國。譚德塞上週在國際專家緊急委員會建議下，未將武漢肺炎認定為「國際關注公共衛生緊急事件」。