Does the corona virus spread from one person to another?

The WHO has expressed the possibility that the corona virus may be infected between two humans in very close contact.

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES WHO’s strategic objectives for this response are to: • Limit human to human transmission including, reducing secondary infections among close contacts and health care workers, preventing transmission amplification events, and preventing further international spread from China*; • Identify, isolate and care for patients early, including providing optimized care for infected patients; • Identify and reduce transmission from the animal source; • Address crucial unknowns and about clinical severity, extent of transmission and infection, treatment options, and accelerate the development of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines; • Communicate critical risk and event information to all communities and counter misinformation; • Minimize social and economic impact through multisectoral partnerships. *This can be achieved through a combination of public health measures, such as rapid identification, diagnosis and management of the cases, identification and follow up of the contacts, infection prevention and control in healthcare settings, implementation of health measures for travellers, awareness raising in the population, risk