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Coronavirus: Virus provides leaps in scientific understanding – BBC News
How a year of intense scientific effort unravelled the secrets of a virus that shut down the world.
By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News
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image captionA worker takes away an escaped giant salamander from a seafood market, which was shut down due to its connection to the spread of the coronavirus, in Wuhan, January 2020
In January 2020, two scientists published the entire genetic code of a coronavirus that was soon to wreak havoc around the world. It marked the start of a year of intense and rapid scientific endeavour, to work out how we might fight the virus.
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