Wuhan coronavirus outbreak 'just beginning' outside China: expert

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Wuhan coronavirus outbreak 'just beginning' outside China: expert COVID19

SINGAPORE - The new coronavirus epidemic may be peaking in China where it was first detected in the central city of Wuhan but it is just beginning in the rest of the world and likely to spread, a global expert on infectious diseases said on Wednesday.

Dale Fisher, chair of the Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network that is coordinated by the World Health Organization, said that predicted "time course" may well be true if the virus is allowed to run free in Wuhan. The flu-like virus has killed more than 1,100 people and infected nearly 45,000, predominantly in China and mostly in Wuhan.

"We have a very low index of suspicion for testing people so...we do have higher ascertainment," he said, but added that there was a lot about the transmission of the virus yet to be understood.

 

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