Donald Trump expects Coronavirus to disappear in the month of April

US President Donald Trump reportedly said Monday that coronavirus that has claimed over 1000 lives in China is expected to vanish in April due to hotter wear. He told reporters at White House that virus, shall typically go away in April, heat, generally speaking, kills that kind of virus.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of  US, country currently has 12 confirmed cases of coronavirus (2019-nCov) of varying severity, 318 cases with pneumonia-like symptoms tested negative and at least 68 cases are under speculation, suggest reports.

Trump told media that he h a long talk with President XI Jinping of China two nights ago, he feels very confident that due to a surge in temperature in April, virus will disappear and that would be a good thing.

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Flu-like viruses tend to thrive in colder

He furr ded that for reasons that aren’t fully understood, flu-like viruses tend to thrive in colder, dryer seasons and new coronavirus could follow suit — putting a brake on outbreak with arrival of milder wear.

Trump lauded China’s leer Xi for country’s efficacious measures in containment of Wuhan 2019-nCov as millions in China remain quarantined and under travel ban to stem global spre of Wuhan virus via human-to-human transmission.

 Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told reporters that it wasn’t ascertained through scientific evidence what curbed disease. He said that issue was, authorities do t kw, and any kind of prediction would be ill-vised.

He furr ded that in best scenario, Chinese would contain outbreak and re would be a stop to its international spre. But China could fail to control outbreak or, even if it were successful, virus could spre to a country without resources to trace contacts and isolate new cases, he ded.

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(with inputs from ncies)