[SCMP] Hong Kong expert claims outbreak is now a pandemic and US death could be ‘tip of the iceberg’

• Professor Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) medical faculty, says only reason WHO has not used word “pandemic” is ‘public fear’.
• Leung added the first death recorded in the United States was worrying, as it indicated there could be more confirmed cases in the country.
• First wave of outbreak outside China could just be starting, says Leung.

Tony Cheung, 1 Mar, 2020

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