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Coronavirus: Top Chinese expert Zhong Nanshan and US counterpart Anthony Fauci to discuss pandemic in public for first time

  • The two infectious disease specialists will appear at an online event hosted by Edinburgh University in March
  • Zhong said the two ‘share some similar views’ and controlling the US outbreak will be ‘great news for the world’

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Anthony Fauci will discuss the outbreak with his Chinese counterpart in March. Photo: Reuters
Kristin Huang
China’s top respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan has said he will appear with Anthony Fauci, the US President’s chief medical adviser, at an online forum in March – the first public discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic between the two.
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Zhong told a press conference after a Covid-19 control event in Guangzhou on Sunday that they “share some similar views” and would discuss the pandemic at an online event hosted by a British university.

Edinburgh University announced on its website that the two would speak at the opening session of a virtual seminar on March 2 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Zhong also said he will discuss the pandemic with experts from Harvard Medical School next week.

“If there is a turning point in the US pandemic, it would be great news for the whole world,” said Zhong, acknowledging that the Biden adminstartion has made fighting the pandemic one of its top priorities.

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The US, which has the world’s highest death toll from Covid-19, has seen more than 26 million cases and over 438,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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