While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downplayed the impact of the corona virus (COVID-19), the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the “window of opportunity is narrowing” to contain the virus.Over the weekend Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of IMF, said in a statement released at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Riyadh, that "the WHO's assessment is that with strong and coordinated measures, the spread of the virus in China and globally can yet be contained and the human tragedy arrested”. However, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that although there was still a chance to contain the virus, “the window of opportunity wa s na r row i ng ”.More than 30 countries have reported cases of the virus, with South Korea being the worst affected after China.