Daily Mail: Coronavirus outbreak is declared a global emergency as SIXTH case is confirmed in the US after Chicago man is infected by his wife in first person-to-person spread in North America
* The World Health Organization had declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a global health emergency
* The 'public health emergency of international concern' is the highest warning the UN health agency can give
* Just one week ago, WHO officials said it was too early to declare the outbreak an emergency
* It comes the same day that the sixth US case of coronavirus was confirmed in a Chicago man in his 60s
* This marks the first case of human-to-human transmission of the virus in America
* The man was infected by his wife, 60, who became the second person in the US to be diagnosed after she returned from a trip to Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak
* The couple, who have not been identified, are now both being isolated at a suburban Chicago hospital
* Four other cases have been confirmed in Arizona, California and Washington - all of whom traveled to China
* Currently, there are 168 possible cases are under investigation in the US, 21 of which are in Illinois
* Worldwide, more than 8,000 people have been infected and 170 people - all in China - have died
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that it was declaring the deadly coronavirus outbreak spreading from China to be a global health emergency.
The warning, officially known as a 'public health emergency of international concern' and defined as an 'extraordinary event', is the highest alert the UN health agency can issue.
Just one week ago, the organization decided to hold off the declaration as there was no evidence of human-to-human evidence outside of China.
However, in the week since, the number of cases surged ten-fold.
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