Scientists have discovered a mutation of coronavirus, which makes it more contagious
American scientists have discovered a mutation of the coronavirus, which increases the number of “spikes” in his “crown” and makes it more infectious than other strains. This is stated in the study representatives of the new York genome center and new York University, pretentiously Preprint of which is published on June 14 on the website BioRxiv.
As writes Reuters, the study may explain why outbreaks in some parts of the world do not lead to such consequences as, for example, in new York or Italy.
The authors note that the mutation D614G increases the number of “spikes” which the virus attaches itself to the human cells, in four or five times, causing SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious. In some cases, the virus is about eight times more effective connected with human cells than the coronavirus without such mutations.
Unknown at this time whether this feature is on the severity of coronavirus disease and the probability of death.
Flash coronavirus infection COVID-19 began in late 2019 in China. March 11, 2020, the world health organization declared the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. According to data from the American Johns Hopkins University, the total number of infected people in the world exceeded 8.38 million, including more than 4.1 million recovered, and 449 thousand died.
