China’s top epidemiologist has likened a coronavirus outbreak in a northern city to a “mini Wuhan”, warning that community transmission could worsen.In an interview with China Newsweek magazine, George Gao Fu, head of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the outbreak in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, was the first to start in a rural area and had a “fierce momentum” resembling the initial stages of the Wuhan spread.“[It is] not so large as in Wuhan … but still has…

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