Coronavirus outbreak may be over in China by April - expert

| 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, in the latest assessment of an epidemic that has rattled the world., 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.

"I hope this outbreak or this event may be over in something like April," he said in a hospital run by Guangzhou Medical University, where 11 coronavirus patients were being treated. He said there was a gradual reduction in new cases in the southern province of Guangdong where he is based, and also in Zhejiang and elsewhere."So that's good news for us."

"The majority of the people think he's the hero of China," Zhong said, wiping tears."I'm so proud of him, he told people the truth, at the end of December, and then he passed away." Zhong, who said the government's unwillingness to share information prolonged the Sars crisis, said Beijing had done much better this time on issues like transparency and cooperating with the World Health Organisation .

Zhong said uncertainties remained about how the coronavirus was infecting patients, if it can spread via faeces and whether so-called"superspreaders" were helping transmit the disease.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

Yeah it will be over when everyone drops dead 🙄

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