“Everyone who can work from home should work from home,” Hanage told the Guardian. It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. We don’t yet know how dangerous the new coronavirus is, and we won’t know until more data comes in. In 2002, Sars spread virtually unchecked to 37 countries, causing global panic, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing more than 750. However, Trudie Lang, director of the Global Health Network at the University of Oxford, was more cautious about recommending home working.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2020 17:03 UTC