How to protect yourself from coronavirus

Symptoms may appear in as few as 2 days, or as long as 14, after exposure. Like previous coronaviruses, this particular virus likely emerged from an animal source, though experts aren’t sure which one as of yet. Now the virus is being spread from person to person. Typically coronavirus infections are transmissible person to person only once someone infected is showing symptoms, however, the Chinese health minister is indicating that this particular strain may be infectious when people aren’t yet sick.