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We discovered a coronavirus similar to the covid-19 virus 7 years ago

We discovered a coronavirus similar to the covid-19 virus 7 years ago

12 February 2020

The covid-19 virus is similar to a coronavirus detected in bats in China back in 2013, but we failed to act on the warnings of those who studied it

We’ve found more than 2500 new viruses and some are unlike any we know

We’ve found more than 2500 new viruses and some are unlike any we know

6 February 2020

The genomes of 2514 new viruses have been identified in DNA recovered from human and animal cells, many of them belonging to wholly new families

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