A doctor expressing his concerns on the mass panic caused because of the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak has garnered support from netizens across the globe. Dr Abdu Sharkawy posted on his Facebook account a heartfelt post about how he is not afraid of the pandemic but the outcomes of a mass panic that has gripped the world.

In the post, Dr Sharkawy introduces himself as an infectious disease specialist and says that he has been tending to sick patients everyday for over 20 years and worked in inner city hospitals and the poorest slums of Africa tackling contagious diseases. Having little to feeling vulnerable about when it comes to infections, he says that it is not COVID-19 that he is scared of but "the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil."