A full house at a seminar, 'Combatting Coronavirus,' organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) at the Trident hotel, Nariman Point, on Tuesday afternoon, saw a multi-pronged thrust — a look at China and Wuhan (the city in Hubei province) as the epicentre of the disease, a global approach to blunt the biological disaster — that finally narrowed down to a focus on India.

Participants and audience members warned it may not be long before we see a community spread of the virus here, and need measures to combat it.