NeoCoV: What is coronavirus strain which ‘could jump from bats to humans’?

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Alarming-sounding reports have claimed ‘new Covid variant’ could be more deadly - but scientists say there is currently little cause for concern

that has caused the global pandemic. Instead, it is derived from a different type of coronavirus related to Middle East respiratory syndrome

"Mers-CoV has been identified in dromedaries in several countries in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia," the World Health Organisation says. WHO says 35 per cent of patients infected with Mers-Covid have died, although this may be an overestimate as mild cases may have been "missed by existing surveillance systems".

 

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