China coronavirus: Update for those in general dental practice
(WorldNews Asia)

24 January 2020 Recent media coverage has highlighted the emergence of a novel coronavirus (nCoV) that originated in a food market in Wuhan, China in December2019, since spreading globally, including to Australia. with Symptom onset of confirmed nCoV cases began as early as 8 December 2019 with the cluster of infection first reported publicly on 31 December 2019. Wuhan is a city of some 11 million people and is a major transport hub in China. This latter point is time-critical, since large numbers of Chinese people travel in late January to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Infected people could spread the disease from China to their country of origin. Cases of infected people spreading the...