Coronavirus: Experts say outbreak will last months at least


  • World
  • Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020

WASHINGTON (AFP): The deadly new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, that has broken out in China will afflict a minimum of tens of thousands of people and will last at least several months, researchers estimate based on the first available data.

"The best-case scenario, you would have something... where we go through the spring into the summer, and then it dies down," Professor David Fisman, of the University of Toronto, who wrote an analysis of the virus for the International Society for Infectious Diseases, told AFP.

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