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I am pleased to say i can bring in the professor from the centre in south africa who has been at the world health organisation meeting now discussing this nu variant. thank you forjoining us. tell us how the meeting went and what did you discuss? thank you for inviting me to your programme. that is what we call the technical working group on virus evolution and that normally happens every seven weeks. there are 25 members across the world with many of the top virologists and biologists and we have been meeting since the beginning of the pandemic. we started meeting to really discuss the emerge...
Sars-like symptoms back in 2012. three of them died. >> that is the closest known relative of sars-cov-2. and we don't even know that that's the virus that made those six miners sick. >> how close are we talking about here? >> 96% similar. sounds like a high number. but in terms of virus evolution, that 4% difference takes decades. their last common ancestor probably was out there in nature 30 or 40 years ago. >> she said there's a zero chance this came from her lab. what did you think of that? >> so i would like to see what made her think there was a zero chance that it came from her lab. can...
Covi 2. >> the closest relative was ratg 13 was found in a horseshoe bat. the sample was taken by a team of researchers from the wuhan institute of virology. it was collected from a mine where six miners worked and got sick. some died. >> that was the closest relative of sarscovi 2. >> how close are we talking about here? >> 96% similar. sounds like a high number but in terms of virus evolution, that 4% difference takes decades.
The list of Covid variant ‘launch dates’ contained in the Instagram post is also inaccurate.