New York, March 14 -- Researchers have found that people who are infected with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) take five days on average to start showing symptoms of the virus.

The deadly virus has so far claimed more than 3,000 lives globally.

According to the findings, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimated the average incubation period of the killer virus was 5.1 days.

The analysis suggests that about 97.5 per cent of people who develop symptoms of new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 infection will do so within 11.5 days of exposure.

The researchers estimated that for every 10,000 individuals quarantined for 14 days, only about 101 would develop symptoms after being released fro...