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If you are unsure about the seriousness of the coronavirus — and there has been some fairly confused information about this — science correspondent Hannah Devlin has busted some of the most common myths.
For one, she writes that while we do not know a precise fatality rate for Covid-19, current estimates are a fatality rate of about 1%.
This would make Covid-19 about 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally.
Related: Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths
Here is a bit more on that announcement from the United States to delay a regional ASEAN summit scheduled to take place in Las Vegas in two weeks time.
The United States has delayed a regional ASEAN summit scheduled to take place in Las Vegas next month due to fears of the coronavirus, a senior administration official said Friday.
“As the international community works together to defeat the novel coronavirus, the United States, in consultation with ASEAN partners, has made the difficult decision to postpone the ASEAN leaders meeting,” said the official on condition of not being named.
Trump had skipped an ASEAN summit and parallel East Asia Summit last year in Bangkok.
He instead sent his national security advisor Robert O’Brien, in the lowest-level participation ever by the United States in the East Asia Summit.
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