7NEWS.com.au
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30th January 2020
Do we need to panic about the coronavirus? Here are the stats
World health authorities are scrambling to try to contain the deadly coronavirus, which originated in China.
Currently, more than 7,000 people have been infected - and the government has effectively ordered a quarantine of almost 60 million people.
Meanwhile, in Australia, there have been seven confirmed cases, and some schools in NSW have asked children who have recently returned from China to stay at home.
And while we don’t know much about this new, novel coronavirus, we’re learning about