“Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2” by NIAID is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Virus emerging from the surface of an infected cell) We have heard about a new virus that was causing pneumonia since December 2019; the virus was spreading in China and it was temporarily called 2019-nCoV. On February 11th, 2020, the International Committee on TaxonomyContinue reading “What we know about SARS-CoV-2”
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2019-nCoV: a Virus is born
In the last few weeks, a new virus causing pneumonia in humans has been identified: it has been temporarily called 2019-nCoV (2019 novel Coronavirus) and was detected for the first time in Wuhan, China. The website of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reports that by January 26th, 2020, 2026 cases haveContinue reading “2019-nCoV: a Virus is born”