A doctor checks on a patient in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE A doctor checks on a patient in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
A doctor checks on a patient in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
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Coronavirus: Wuhan may be home to 75,815 infected, report says

  • Findings by scientists at Hong Kong University based on the assumption that each infected patient could have infected 2.68 others
  • Meanwhile, numbers of new infections and deaths set daily records

Topic |   Coronavirus pandemic
Cissy ZhouJosephine MaStephen ChenPhoebe Zhang
Cissy Zhou , Josephine Ma , Stephen Chen and Phoebe Zhang

Updated: 12:51am, 15 Feb, 2020

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A doctor checks on a patient in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE A doctor checks on a patient in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
A doctor checks on a patient in the isolation ward of a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
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