MEDICAL TOURISM SPECIAL FEATURE
THE VIRAL CHALLENGE Global tourism market is faced with yet another disease outbreak that threatens to unsettle business plans for the coming few years
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ince its outbreak in China’s Wuhan, the novel Coronavirus has been spreading rapidly, killing hundreds and raising a global health crisis that is much bigger than that caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Named Covid-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the virus has claimed more than 2700 lives and infected over 80,000 people globally during the past two months with a case-fatality ratio of two per cent. The SARS outbreak in 2002 had snuffed out only 774 lives across an eight month period in comparison.
16 Medical Tourism Jan - Mar 2020
