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SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans 'without much change'
Updated On: 15 March, 2021 09:06 AM IST | London | IANS
"This does not mean no changes have occurred, mutations of no evolutionary significance accumulate and 'surf' along the millions of transmission events, like they do in all viruses," said researcher Oscar MacLean from the University of Glasgow.
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A team of researchers has found that the virus SARS-CoV-2 has jumped from bats to humans without much change.
The study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, showed that since December 2019 and for the first 11 months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been very little "important" genetic change observed in the hundreds of thousands of sequenced virus genomes.
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