Coronavirus: The 'sixth sense' and long nights behind virus test kit

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As merrymakers ushered in the dawn of 2020 with high spirits, infectious diseases experts in Singapore were on high alert. Their radars, honed by experience, had picked up on a series of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China.

By the time the Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organisation on Jan 31 that they had an outbreak of an unknown virus on their hands, scientists here were waiting to spring into action.

Written by
Audrey Tan, Straits Times Science and Environment Correspondent

Sunday,
16 February 2020

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