The South China Morning Post reports the following:
The Covid-19 epidemic caused by the coronavirus will not end this year as the contagion has spread worldwide, a leading microbiologist from Hong Kong has said.
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung from the University of Hong Kong, who advised authorities on control measures against the disease, said although the situation in mainland China and Hong Kong might improve in summer, there could be more imported cases from the southern hemisphere in winter.
āWe think the epidemic will probably not come to an end,ā Yuen said on a pre-recorded television interview aired on Sunday. āThere will be what we call reversed imported cases. In the beginning other countries feared us, now we fear them [for bringing in the virus].ā
