Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak Medical News Updates -- March 4, 2020

Scientists say the virus has split into two noticeably different strains, and most people have caught the more aggressive version, but it is now fading out while the milder strain continues to infect people

Daily Mail: TWO strains of the killer coronavirus are spreading around the world – and 70% of infected patients have caught the more aggressive and contagious type, study claims

* Researchers from Beijing and Shanghai studied 103 samples of the coronavirus
* They found two strains of it, named them L and S and found L was most common
* L is also the most aggressive, but it has become less common since early January
* A virus which is too aggressive may burn itself out by landing patients in hospital
* More than 94,000 people have now caught the coronavirus and 3,200 have died

The coronavirus has mutated into at least two separate strains since the outbreak began in December, according to Chinese scientists.

Researchers say there are now two types of the same coronavirus infecting people – and most people seem to have caught the most aggressive form of it.

At least 94,000 people have been infected around the world and almost 3,200 have died, while 50,000 have recovered from the disease.

The team of experts from Beijing and Shanghai said 70 per cent of people have caught the most aggressive strain of the virus but that this causes such bad illness that it has struggled to spread since early January.

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Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak Medical News Updates -- March 4, 2020

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