Experts: Corona jumped from bats to humans with very little change
London / New Delhi
The progenitor of the novel coronavirus underwent âveÂry little changeâ to adapt to huÂmans from bats, according to a new study which suggÂests the ability of the virus to spread from one person to anÂother likely evolved in the flyÂing mammal prior to it juÂmping to its new human host.
The study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, assessed hundreds of thousands of sequenced genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and found for the first 11 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been very little important genetic change observed in the coronavirus.
By controlling every aspect of the origins investigation, the Chinese government has closed off every avenue to disprove that it isn't influencing the investigation's outcomes.
SCOTS experts warned six months ago that international travel was a main driver of Covid-19 infections but the UK’s rigorous test-before-travel scheme was not introduced until yesterday, allowing the virus to circulate freely in Scotland, it has emerged. New rules requiring arrivals to take a negative coronavirus test up to 72 hours before departure and self-isolate for up to 10 days after entering the UK came into effect at 4am yesterday as travel corridors offering exemptions were scrapped. The move is part of the Government’s attempts to prevent new strains of Covid-19 entering the UK. Passengers arriving in the UK yesterday faced long queues of up to two hours at the border as new coronavirus travel rules came into force. Self-scan gates were shut as officals checked all passengers for proof of a negative Covid-19 test result.
SCOTS experts warned six months ago that international travel was a main driver of Covid-19 infections but the UK’s rigorous test-before-travel scheme was not introduced until yesterday, allowing the virus to circulate freely in Scotland, it has emerged. New rules requiring arrivals to take a negative coronavirus test up to 72 hours before departure and self-isolate for up to 10 days after entering the UK came into effect at 4am yesterday as travel corridors offering exemptions were scrapped. The move is part of the Government’s attempts to prevent new strains of Covid-19 entering the UK. Passengers arriving in the UK yesterday faced long queues of up to two hours at the border as new coronavirus travel rules came into force. Self-scan gates were shut as officals checked all passengers for proof of a negative Covid-19 test result.
A year of the virus 1 minute read
By Isabel Saco
Geneva, Dec 29 (efe-epa).- The hypotheses on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have shifted and changed in the year since the outbreak was first detected, but scientists have yet to land on a definitive answer.
There are increasing warnings from the scientific community, however, that the public should not begin to underestimate the continued danger posed by the virus even with the advent of the first vaccines.
On the last day of 2019, the World Health Organization’s office in China published a declaration on the website of Wuhan’s municipal health commission informing of the emergence of a new form of viral pneumonia in the city. The report was taken to higher authorities.