In a paper published in The Journal of General Virology , researchers at The Pirbright Institute have confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 variants are able to gain entry to cells of more species than the original virus. The original SARS-CoV-2 wildtype virus, which emerged in China in 2019, is understood to have come from bats, but since […]
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COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread to additional countries. Over 175 000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week while infections rose by 50% on the continent between 29 December 2020 and 25 January 2021 […]
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