The importance of knowing SARS-CoV-2 virus origins
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. It is crucial for scientists and the public to know the origins of this virus because of the following three reasons;
1. To prevent future reintroduction of the same virus into the human population.
2. To prevent future similar pandemics in terms of understanding how the virus jumped from bats origin into humans.
3. For development purposes of more efficient treatments and vaccines by looking at the virus how it looked like before it jumped to the human population.
WHO has put together an interdisciplinary team of ten international experts who will be studying the origins of the virus in collaboration with Chinese counterparts.
Hopefully, with these investigations, the world will have a better understanding of the virus and its origins.
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