Coronavirus: number of cases in Hong Kong could jump almost 2,000 per cent in next two weeks, scientist predicts

Hong Kong could see an almost 2,000 per cent increase in the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus over the next two weeks as people return to the city from mainland China after the Lunar New Year holiday.The claim was made by Dr Yuan Hsiang-yu of City University, who called the start of February a “critical time for the government”.As of Friday evening there were 12 confirmed cases in the city, and Yuan, who is a researcher in the university’s department of biomedical sciences, estimates…