Three months after the outbreak, here are the Coronavirus facts

A pharmacist reaches for medicine at a shop in Coburg, Melbourne

A pharmacist reaches for medicine at a shop in Coburg, Melbourne. Source: AAP

As Italy is declared Red Zone, we are flooded by many and contradictory information about coronavirus. What do we really know, three months after the beginning of the epidemic in China? Why do death rates swing from over 3% in Italy and China to 0.6% in South Korea?


Mariapia Degli-Esposti, professor of Immunology at Monash University in Melbourne and head of the laboratory of Experimental Immunology in Melbourne and Perth tells SBS Italian how to navigate the conflicting information and what are the most efficient precautionary measures.

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