New coronavirus can adapt to the human body in 2012, writes The Sun with reference to virologist Jonathan Latham and biologist Allison Wilson.
The researchers found a recording of the doctor who treated miners from the Chinese province of Yunnan, which for two weeks has cleared the mine from the feces of bats. In cases of manifested symptoms characteristic of COVID-19: pneumonia, dry cough, pain in the limbs and high fever. Patients needed mechanical ventilation, three of the six workers died.
Samples of miners is sent to the laboratory in Wuhan, where it was determined that they were infected with a coronavirus similar to SARS. Thus, as emphasized by the researchers, there is reason to believe that COVID-19 had already been adapted to the human body.
Over the past months there were various versions of the origin of the novel coronavirus. While the world health organization notes that the infection is not so well studied to make definite conclusions. Experts continue research.
According to the latest data, the number of infected in the world exceeded 21 million people, more than 761 thousand patients died.
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