Coronavirus could infect two-thirds of globe, top scientist says

If the virus spreads to anywhere near that extent, it will show the limitations of China's strict containment measures, including quarantining areas inhabited by tens of millions of people. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has credited those steps with giving the rest of China and the world a "window" in which to prepare.

Neil Ferguson, a researcher at Imperial College London, estimated that as many as 50,000 people may be infected each day in China.Gabriel Leung, a public health professor at the University of Hong Kong, has also said close to two-thirds of the world could catch the virus if it is left unchecked. More data needed to be gathered to gain a better idea of how far the virus is likely to range, said David Heymann, an infectious disease expert at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who oversaw the WHO's response to SARS in 2003.

Japan confirmed its first COVID-19 death - a woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa prefecture near Tokyo - adding to two previous fatalities in Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

As the mother of a young man who was a talented fencer, but developed inherited macular and now has low vision and earns a modest living as a fencing coach, dragging his coaching bag around Sydney on public transport because he's too blind to drive, this stuff is making me sick!

Who'd be surprised? If the leaders of the world can't take the lead and keep us civilised, something's bound to give.

But apparently our travel ban is an ‘overreaction’?!

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