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Professor Jill Carr, a virologist at Flinders University, says HMPV outbreak is very different from Covid, “where the virus was completely new in humans and arose from a spillover from animals”.

In neighbouring India, officials said there is no need for panic as HMPV is “like any other respiratory virus”. “There has been news doing the rounds about a metapneumovirus outbreak in China.

A worrying outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is reportedly overwhelming hospitals in China, projecting images eerily similar to those witnessed in late 2019 upon the outbreak of Covid-19.