Some other interesting things about the current coronavirus “The new coronavirus has killed nearly 3 times as many people in 8 weeks as SARS did in 8 months. Here’s how the 2 outbreaks compare.”:

And it seems that the sars disease is more deadly than the coronavirus because generally sars killed 9.6 % of those affected whereas the current coronavirus seems to kill 1-2% of those affected according to Business Insider article. The sars disease took eight months to spread to about 8,000 people but the coronavirus has spread to 75,000 people in the span of eight weeks. So the coronavirus may spread more easily, but causes less mortality rates. “Both the sars and the coronavirus share 79.5% of their genome and belong in the class of betacoronaviruses and these two viruses use the ACE2 receptor that allows  the virus to enter into people’s lungs.”