This is reported by Bloomberg.
“Assuming current trends continue, we are still predicting a peak in mid-late February,” said Adam Kucharski, assistant professor of infectious disease epidemiology.
He did not rule out that, based on the available data, about 5% of the inhabitants of Chinese Wuhan will fall ill at the peak, which will amount to approximately 500 thousand people.
At the same time, Kucharski emphasized that the situation is rather uncertain and accurate estimates are difficult to give.
According to the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong Benjamin Cowling, the next two weeks will be decisive, since during this period it will be determined whether the disease will continue to spread worldwide or the quarantine measures taken by the Chinese government have been effective.
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance of China said that the authorities allocated about $ 10.3 billion to prevent and control the spread of a new type of coronavirus.
It was reported that the number of coronavirus victims in China increased to 811, the number of infected exceeded the mark of 37 thousand.
More details in the material RT.