World Coronavirus Dispatch: Pathogen may have long been unnoticed in bats

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The new coronavirus appears to have circulated unnoticed in bats for decades, scientists have found. Horseshoe bats are the most plausible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, researchers led by Maciej Boni of Pensylvania State University’s Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics said in a study published Tuesday in Nature Microbiology. The virus’s origins have been at the centre of much debate as the pandemic continues to stymie economies and the death toll surpasses 654,000. Read more here
 

Let’s look at the global statistics:


Total Confirmed Cases: 16,741,049


Change Over Yesterday: 477,001


Total Deaths: 660,248


Total Recovered: 9,751,608

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