China's Wuhan has warned of a lethal variant called NEO COV detected in bat's triggering widespread panic as some reports suggested that it requires only one mutation to infiltrate human cells.
NEO COV is said to carry the mortality rate of Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) and the high transmission rate of the current SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Scientists have asked people not to panic, saying that reports about the variants are “totally blown out of proportion”. Here’s everything we know so far about NEO COV virus NEO COV is not a new variant of COVID-19. It is a new strain or another type of coronavirus just like SARS-CoV-2 and was first reported from South Africa.
What is the NEO COV virus?
NEO COV, which is told to be the deadlier version of coronavirus, was detected in South Africa some time ago. The Wuhan lab scientists have found the presence of this virus in the bats of South Africa. Considering the extensive mutations in the RBD regions of the SARS-Cov-2 variants, especially the heavily mutated Omicron variant, these viruses may hold a latent potential to infect humans through further adaptation.
The panic set off when the study said that this highly lethal virus has the potential to kill one in every three persons it infects. The researchers have noted that infection with NEO COV
Should you worry?
No. In its current form, NEO COV does not infect humans. According to researchers, further mutations of the virus may make it potentially harmful to humans there are no cases of NEO COV in human's
2.WHO is saying
According (WHO), whether NEO COV coronavirus poses a threat to humans requires further study.
The WHO has said that it works closely with the World is responds to the threat of emerging zoonotic viruses. Wuhan had warned of a new variant of NEO COV, currently circulating in South Africa. The new strain reportedly related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome, According to a report by the Russian news agency Sputnik, NEO COV which was first found in bats in South Africa have a high death and transmission rate. Wuhan had warned of a new variant of coronavirus NEO COV currently circulating in South Africa. The new strain reportedly related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS-COV. According to a report by Russian news agency Sputnik, NEO COV which was first found in bats in South Africa have a high death and transmission rate.
Sputnik, however, claimed that NEO COV is not new as in 2012 and 2015, it was discovered in outbreaks in Middle Eastern countries. Carrying the potentially combined high mortality rate of MERS-CoV (where one in three infected people die on average) and the high transmission rate of the current SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, NEO COV can not be cured by antibodies nor protein molecules produced by people with respiratory diseases Coronaviruses are often found in animals, including in bats which have been identified as a natural reservoir of many of these viruses, the health agency and added that it works closely with the World Health and Agriculture and the UN Environment and respond to the threat of emerging zoonotic viruses,
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