05
February
2020
|
22:27
Asia/Singapore

Hot and humid weather may end the novel coronavirus – as well as the development of a vaccine

Prof Paul Ananth Tambyah and Asst Prof Jyoti Somani from the Dept of Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine shared their views on how the seasonal pattern of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia may be similar to that of influenza infection and SARS, and that cases may sharply fall by May when temperatures in China warm up.