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Scientists around the world are still making sense of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China. While there are still a large number of unknowns, and a race for a cure is on, multiple experts have said it is likely that the outbreak could turn into a global pandemic (the World Health Organisation has not classified the outbreak as a pandemic). Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch has estimated the virus could infect 40-70% of the global population (while this might technically be true, what really matters is how many of those infected will show symptoms and, at the moment, nobody is able to say for sure). Gabriel Leung, chair of public health medicine at Hong Kong University, told The Guardian on February 12 that the virus could infect 60% of the global population. With a fatality rate between 1% and 2%, the world could be staring at an alarming situation unless the spread is contained. As of Saturday, 66,492 cases were reported in China. The number of deaths stand at 1,523.