World markets started shrugging off the worst of the coronavirus impact last wee...
- World markets started shrugging off the worst of the coronavirus impact last week and stock markets have since reached record highs. China’s announcement that new cases of the so-called COVID-19 detected on Tuesday were at their lowest since Jan 30 has only consolidated those gains.In short, no one can say.
“In a situation like this where there are so many unknowns, it’s fair to say it’s impossible to predict with any kind of precision at all when the peak is going to happen,” said Robin Thompson, a mathematical epidemiology specialist at Oxford University.
-why some people die. People who are older or have underlying medical conditions are most at risk. The overall death rate among reported cases is 2% but WHO wants more data about the disease that in severe cases can cause pneumonia and organ failure.A moot point. There has been skepticism both inside and outside China about the official tallies of new cases, without anyone coming forward with reliable alternative data.
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