Even at the high end of 2.9％ in terms of its case fatality rate, the COVID－19 is only slightly more dangerous than previous SARS outbreaks but substantially less deadly than some of the recent bad influenza and pneumonia years, where case fatality rates have sometimes exceeded 10％, said Josef Gregory Mahoney, a professor at East China Normal University.

While scattered in different countries across the world, students and alumni of New York University Shanghai united in a virtual choir to show their support for Wuhan and communities affected by the COVID－29.

China＇s economy would return to normal in the second quarter following the novel coronavirus outbreak, whose impact on the global economy would be ＂relatively minor and short－lived＂, a top International Monetary Fund official said on Saturday.

The local recovery rate for COVID－19 has reached 53 percent, experts announced on February 18.

Lu Haiyan, an Albanian student from the Shanghai Ganquan Foreign Languages Middle School, is one of the supportive foreigners taking an active part in the battle of their communities.