Is one version of coronavirus more dangerous than the other? And should we be afraid of these new mutations? The short answer, according to virologists, is no.
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.traveled out of China and proliferated across the globe, it developed small mutations that accumulated into distinct versions of the virus. Scientists can now tell these versions apart by peering into the viral genome.
So far, the novel coronavirus responsible for the global pandemic is mutating normally as virologists expected to see based on their experience with other similar viruses. This handout illustration image taken with a scanning electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 isolated emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab.
But as scientists across the globe learn more about these mutations, many have been eager to use these discoveries to decipher whether the virus is becoming more or less dangerous.two different types of the virus
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