For interest and reference:

World Health Organization: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) (Feb 2020)

  Over the first 6 weeks of the new decade, the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has spread from the People’s Republic of China to 20 other countries.

  On 30 January 2020 following the recommendations of the Emergency Committee, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

  In view of the urgency of this outbreak, the international community is mobilising to find ways to significantly accelerate the development of interventions.

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/covid-19-public-heal...