IIT-Madras studying Coronavirus' high transmission potential
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Chennai, April 26 : The Indian Institute of Technology Madras researchers are studying the high transmission rate and mortality of SARS-CoV-2, the scientific name for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Using computational tools, the team studied its two close variants -- SARS-CoV and NL63.
'SARS-CoV' can be considered a asibling' of the subfamily beta coronavirus aSARS-CoV-2', while the aNL63' belongs to sub-family alpha coronavirus and can be considered as a acousin' of SARS-CoV-2.
SARS-CoV is more severe than SARS-CoV-2, whereas NL63 shows milder symptoms than SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.