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Recurrent SARS-CoV-2 mutations do not significantly increase transmissibility, says study – News-Medical.Net

A team of researchers at the Genetics Institute, University College London, tested whether any homoplasies observed in SARS-Cov-2 to date are significantly linked…

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan City, China. Since then, it has spread to over 191 countries and has infected more than 60.51 million people.
The novel coronavirus stemmed from a still unverified animal reservoir, but is thought to have originated in horseshoe bats. Due to its recent jump to humans, SARS-CoV-2 may not be fully adapted to its human host. Scientists speculated…

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