Study: Majority Of Coronavirus Cases Are Mild

Health officials in China have released their first major report into the coronavirus which has now been officially named COVID-19. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention paper focused on 44,672 confirmed cases of the virus in Mainland China, finding that 80.9 percent of them were classified as mild while 13.8 percent and 4.7 percent were categorized as severe and critical respectively.

Despite the vast majority of confirmed cases being deemed mild, 1,023 deaths were still recorded out of the patients in the study, equating to a 2.3 percent case fatality rate. That's lower than for both SARS and MERS.