Coronavirus could be ‘getting WEAKER – as scientists spot new mutation’
SCIENTISTS have discovered a new coronavirus mutation that suggest the bug might be weakening.
It's similar to a change found in the Sars virus in 2003, that marked a changing tide in that outbreak, the experts said.
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“It evolved with a more attenuated form in the late phase of the epidemic.”
This means that Sars had changed to be weaker as time went on.
But Dr Lim admits that the sample is a “drop in the bucket” when it comes to the various sequences of the virus being displayed.
He said if more coronavirus genomes are sequenced then scientists might find more instances of attenuated genome.
The development in Arizona comes after a team from the University of Dundee's School of Life Sciences released some of the clearest pictures yet recorded of the virus.
They show the formation of Sars-CoV-2 particles - the virus which causes Covid-19 - in a tissue model of the human gut viewed in an ultra-powerful microscope.
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