Coronavirus may be here for much longer – due to rapid mutations

The novel coronavirus has gone through rapid mutations and may spread for a longer time than expected, according to a joint study by two top epidemic research institutes in China.Since January, the virus has gone through at least six major changes in its genes that boosted infectivity and “immune escape” – its ability to escape the detection and attack by the human immune system, the researchers found. Most of these mutated strains occurred in America and Europe, they said.Covid-19, the disease…

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