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Coronavirus infection number could be much higher than official figures
Experts are warning up to 10,000 people could already be infected with the killer coronavirus, as China quarantines the city where it originated.
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January 23, 2020 7:12am
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The deadly Chinese virus is continuing to spread.Source:News Corp Australia
The Chinese government has quarantined the city where the deadly coronavirus originated and plans to shut down the airport and public transport, Chinese state media is reporting.
China may have also drastically under reported the number of people infected by a mysterious coronavirus that has since spread around the world.
The number of deaths linked to the virus, that originated in China, has risen to 17 — a near doubling in the past 24 hours - according to officials in Hubei province. More than 500 people are infected.
But there are fears that figure could be as high as 10,000, with warnings the new strain is “as deadly as Spanish flu” which killed 50 million people.
Professor Neil Ferguson, an expert in mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said the death rate was “roughly the same as for The Spanish flu epidemic, at around one in 50”.
The virus, which causes pneumonia-like symptoms, was discovered in the metropolis of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, in late December.
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