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Coronavirus: Are mutations making it more infectious? – BBC News
While there have been thousands of changes to the virus only one is seen as possibly altering its behaviour.
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University College Hospital in London, where the changing virus is being studied
The coronavirus that is menacing the world right now is not the same as the coronavirus that first emerged in China.
Sars-Cov-2, the official name of the virus that causes the disease Covid-19, and continues to blaze a path of destruction across the globe, is mutating.
But, while scientists have spotted thousands of mutations, or changes to the virus’s genetic material,…
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