a few seconds agoForecast of Harvard Professor: Coronavirus could affect as many as 70% of the world's population
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(6 years ago)Epidemiologist and professor at Harvard University Marc Lipsitch said coronavirus would likely become a pandemic this year, and that it could infect a considerable percentage of the world's population. While he told the Wall Street Journal, the coronavirus touch would be between 40% and 70%. However, Lipsitch was [...]
As he said. Wall Street JournalThe touch by coronavirus would be between 40% and 70%. However, Lipsitch was convinced that many of the possible cases would be soft or asimptographical, it transmitsgraphy.
Lipsitch forecasts were also said by two other field experts. Ira Longin, adviser to the World Health Organisation (OBSH), predicted that the figure would reach two-thirds of the world's population, while Gabriel Leung, head of the public medicine department at Hong Kong University, said that if the assessment showing that each infected 2.5 persons on average, the coronavirus could affect a percentage that would range from 60 and 80% of the world's population.
O The BSH reported on Friday that the overall number of coronavirus cases on the planet total 83 652, of which 78,961 correspond to China and 4,691 for the rest of the world. This number assumes that a total of 1,358 additional cases (331 in China and 1,057 in other countries have been recorded in the last 24 hours.
O BSH also indicated that COVID-19 so far has caused 2,791 deaths in China and 67 outside of this country. Belarus, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Nigeria were the new countries that reported one or more cases, bringing the total number of affected nations to 51.
The largest number of cases affected by coronavirus outside China have been recorded in South Korea -- 2,337 infected -- 13 deaths, Italy -888 infected, 21 deaths -- and Iran -38 infected -- 34 deaths.
However, a report from BBC Persia said on Friday that Iran has not reported the actual number of people who died from coronavrus in the country.
Yesterday, WHO raised the risk of expanding the global epidemic to high “ ”, at the same level that it had previously calculated in China and in the Asia-Mediac region. “We are at a crucial moment”, O director said Tedros Adhanom Ghebraesus, who pointed out that over the last two days, the daily number of infections in the world had been higher than the one recorded in China”. No country should think that there will be no chance. That would be a fatal mistake. The virus does not respect limit”, he warned.
