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On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness (coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19), found in a cluster of people in Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, which had been reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.
A COVID-19 vaccine is intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 . Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an established body of knowledge existed about the structure and function of coronaviruses causing diseases like severe acute ...
This includes $25 million for Creative New Zealand, $1.4m for the Antarctic Heritage Trust, $11.364m to Heritage New Zealand, $18m for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, $2 million for Te Papa's Hardship Fund, $31.8m for Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to preserve its audio and visual collection, $2.03m for the Royal New Zealand Ballet ...
On 28 December 2019, Dr. Lili Ren, a virologist at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing submitted a complete sequence of SARS-CoV-2 structure to GenBank. The sequence was never made public as it failed to include the annotations required for publication, and attempts by the NIH to contact Dr. Ren went unanswered.
By now, most of us know the basics of taking a COVID-19 test at home.With cases, test positivity and hospitalizations due to COVID-19 ticking up again, it's time to refresh your memory on how to ...
With a severe case of COVID-19, a person may experience weakness, lethargy, and fever for a prolonged period of time. However, in some cases, a person might not even show symptoms of having the ...
[27] [28] In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended "2019 novel coronavirus" (2019-nCoV) [5] [29] as the provisional name for the virus. This was in accordance with WHO's 2015 guidance [ 30 ] against using geographical locations, animal species, or groups of people in disease and virus names.
We hear it daily, a key piece of advice to slow the spread of coronavirus: Maintain six feet of social distance from other people. Public places like stores and banks have marked that distance on ...