FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox University of Sheffield has co-authored a bombshell study suggesting the coronavirus has mutated into a more contagious form.
With global cases now topping 10.6m and over 500,000 recorded deaths, scientists are still grappling with understanding the novel virus and preventing a second wave of infections.Now a joint study from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Duke University and University of Sheffield claims that a new and more contagious variant of the killer bug, called ‘D614G’, has developed.
Research published in the journal Cell says the SARS-CoV-2 genome structure has shifted and a new variant is now the most common.