THE decade has not started well for us. The world is now in the grip of a disease caused by an entirely new pathogen, the virus dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV, which first infected a human in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
The China government reacted by imposing a quarantine on Wuhan, a city with 11 million people. But by the end of January, the virus, which causes pneumonia, had exploded into a global outbreak, hitting more than 20 countries and number is still increasing.
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