Bhubaneswar, Feb. 20 -- Jeypore: While the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak in China is keeping the world in tenterhooks, a scientist from Odisha and his wife residing in China had a safe escape from the deadly virus just days before the outbreak.

As per reports, Manas Baxi, a native of Baxi Sahi in Jeypore of Koraput district is a scientist by profession and along with his wife Pratima Sahoo, he was residing in Xiamen under Fujian province of People's Republic of China.

Baxi has been in China from 2017 and was in Beijing before shifting to Xiamen with his wife in August 2019.

Narrating his experience on the outbreak of Coronavirus in China, Baxi said, "The first report of an infectious virus affecting people was received on December ...