A holiday village in Hong Kong has become a coronavirus quarantine camp

A picturesque holiday camp in Hong Kong has been turned into a quarantine center to house those who have came into close contact with confirmed cases of coronavirus

A medical staff member takes the temperature of a man at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital on January 25. Hector Retaamal/AFP/Getty Images

"We estimate that, on average, each case infected 2.6 other people up to January 18, 2020, based on an analysis combining our past estimates of the size of the outbreak in Wuhan with computational modeling of potential epidemic trajectories,” said the report. When it comes to outbreaks, scientists and public health experts are concerned with how quickly a disease can spread and its mortality rate.“It is quite easy to get fixed on a particular number but such predicted numbers will vary considerably at this early stage in an epidemic,” Mike Turner, Director of Science, The Wellcome Trust, said in a statement.

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