A doctor has claimed that coronavirus has weakened from being like a "tiger" to a "wild cat" and may even peter out without a vaccine.
The bug is becoming less deadly as it spreads, according to Professor Matteo Bassetti, head of an infectious diseases clinic at Italy's Policlinico San Martino hospital.
He told the Sunday Telegraph that he has recently seen elderly patients recovering who would have died earlier on in the pandemic. "Even patients aged 80 or 90 are now sitting up in bed and breathing without help.
The same patients would have died in two or three days before," Professor Bassetti said. "It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it’s like a wild cat." The doctor says that at the height of Italy's Covid-19