EDITORIAL: Coronavirus is spreading fast; is East Africa ready for it?
This photo taken on January 28, 2020 shows a medical staff member checking a patient infected by the novel coronavirus inside an isolation ward at a hospital in Zouping in China's easter Shandong province. PHOTO | STR | AFP
The World Health Organisation has declared the new coronavirus, first reported in China last December, as a global health emergency.
Compared to SARS—Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome—which again broke out in China in late 2003, the new outbreak dubbed 2019n-CoV has demonstrated more virulence.
