It belongs to the large family of coronaviruses. The researchers gave the virus the name “n-Cov 2019”. Is the new coronavirus really dangerous? For the moment, China reports 1300 cases, including 41 fatal or 3.15% mortality. It is much more than the mortality due to the flu which represents 0.1% each year in France.
The figures must be put into perspective according to Bruno Lina, professor of virology: “We know how many cases are detected in China, but in the epicenter of Wuhan we do not really know how many infections there are. Under these conditions, if there are four to five times more, at this time – we would be really on figures extremely similar to what we see with the flu in France “, he says. Researchers still do not know what type of animal has transmitted it to humans and how.
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