An Israeli professor has claimed that coronavirus will disappear after 70 days – with or without intervention. The unproven claims were made by Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, who is the head of the security studies programme at Tel Aviv University.
He said that all efforts to stop the spread will lead to the same result because the virus is “self-limiting”, and peaks at 40 days before rapidly declining.
His calculations claim to show the pattern of daily new infections as a percentage of accumulated number of infections. They start at around 30 per cent, but decrease to 10 per cent after six weeks, and ultimately reached a level of less than five per cent a week later.