WHO says "lethal rate is around 3%" Expert "Needs to be careful in the future" January 24 13:45
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that the spread of infection from one patient to around two at this time and the mortality rate to be around 3% in regard to pneumonia caused by the new type of coronavirus that is spreading in China . Experts say the infectivity and mortality are not high at this time, but caution is needed as the virus may change in the future.
On Wednesday, the WHO showed that the new coronavirus had spread from one patient to how many people, and at present it had an estimate of spread from 1.4 to 2.5.
In addition, it was revealed that one out of four infected patients had severe symptoms, and that many had relatively mild symptoms and a mortality rate of about 3%.
In addition, a report from China states that in Wuhan, humans are being transmitted one after another, causing a "fourth infection".
Regarding this situation, Nobuhiko Okabe, director of the Kawasaki Institute of Health and Safety, said, “It is low but not underestimated compared to SARS, which has a fatality rate of about 10%. If the infection continues, the nature of the virus may change. It is important to be careful. "
"At present, the fatality rate is lower than that of SARS, but the more people infected, the more people die. In addition, a patient called" Super Spreader, "which spreads the infection to many people, said Tohoku University's Hitoshi Oshitani. Appears, and there is no guarantee that a major epidemic will occur and should not be taken care of. "
Okabe said, “This declaration is very effective as a means to stop the spread of infection, but at the same time it raises social unrest. Oshitani said, "I think that an emergency situation is originally based on the risk of spread of infectious disease to the international community and should be declared already."