New China virus 'not as powerful as SARS': health official A top Chinese health official says the deadly coronavirus that has infected nearly 2,000 people in the country, is "not as powerful as SARS."\\n\\n"Everyone likes to compare this with SARS. In one aspect, this disease is indeed, from what we see now, compared with SARS, it is not as powerful as SARS. There have been many less severe cases," says Gao Fu, head of China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.\\n\\n\\n+AFP TEXT STORY TO FOLLOW+ IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES