Governments must implement “draconian” travel curbs to prevent the Novel Coronavirus from becoming a global epidemic, a team of infectious disease experts from Hong Kong said on Jan. 27.
A team of academics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Monday presented research on the outbreak of the virus that first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, estimating that as many as 44,000 could be infected out of the city’s population of 11 million—a figure far higher than official statistics.
