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A passenger wearing protective mask and covering her body with plastic bags as protection from Coronavirus, at Beijing railway station in Beijing, China, 11 February 2020. The new study, conducted by prominent Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nan-shan, shows the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) incubation period can be as long as 24 days, based on the recent analysis from about 1,000 confirmed patients in China. Media reports that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has so far killed 1,017 people, infected 42,717 others, with 21,675 suspected cases mostly in China. (Photo by Wu Hong/EPA/EFE)
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