Coronavirus is likely to keep coming back each year, say scientists
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 28-04-2020
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Anthony Fauci, the director of US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said last month that Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, could become a seasonal ailment as evidenced by cases now showing up in countries across the southern hemisphere belatedly as they enter their winter seasons.
While some including US President Donald Trump have expressed hope that the virus' spread will slow as the temperature in rises in the summer, Chinese experts on Monday said that they found no evidence for this. The virus is heat sensitive, but that is when its exposed to 56 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes, and the weather is never going to get that hot, said Wang Guiqiang, head of the infectious diseases department of Peking University First Hospital. "So globally, even during the summer, the chance of cases going down significantly is small."