The World Health Organization [WHO] just made a huge change to the warnings it has been giving about the coronavirus pandemic, as officials are now saying that the spread of the disease by people not showing symptoms “appears to be rare.”

“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing – they are following asymptomatic cases, they are following contacts and they are not finding secondary transmission onward, it’s very rare,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said in a press conference, according to Fox News. “Much of that is not published in the literature.”

“We’re constantly looking at this data, and we’re trying to get more information from countries to truly answer this question,” she continued. “It still appears to be rare that an asymptomatic individual actually transmits onward.”

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the WHO, made sure to warn that while the situation is improving in Europe, it’s getting worse globally. He pointed out that 75 percent of cases reported to the U.N. health agency on Sunday came from 10 countries in the Americas and South Asia, and that Africa has seen an increase in cases as well, so we are not out of the woods yet.

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“At the same time, we’re encouraged that several countries around the world are seeing positive signs,” Tedros said. “In these countries, the biggest threat now is complacency.”

The coronavirus pandemic has killed over 400,000 people around the world so far, and resulted in mass lockdowns that have wreaked havoc on the global economy. As of yesterday, seven million cases of COVID-19 had been diagnosed around the world, with 1.9 million of those being diagnosed in the United States.

“More than six months into this pandemic, this is not the time for any country to take its foot off the pedal,” Tedros continued. “This is the time for countries to continue to work hard.”

The fact that officials are now saying that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 “appears to be rare” is a major change from what they said in the past, as they had previously said that people showing no symptoms of the virus could still spread it easily.

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