Coronavirus outbreak may be over in China by April, says expert

Zhong Nanshan, head of the National Health Commission's team investigating the novel coronavirus outbreak, says the epidemic is hitting a peak in China this month and may be over by April. - Reuters

GUANGZHOU: The coronavirus outbreak is hitting a peak in China this month and may be over by April, the government's senior medical adviser said on Tuesday (Feb 10), in the latest assessment of an epidemic that has rattled the world.

In an interview with the media, Zhong Nanshan, an 83-year-old epidemiologist who won fame for combating the SARS epidemic in 2003, shed tears about the doctor Li Wenliang who died last week after being reprimanded for raising the alarm.