Updated Feb 10, 2021 | 11:13 IST
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have found important structural similarities between SARS-CoV-2 and a pangolin coronavirus, implying that the pangolin coronavirus could also infect humans.
Researchers find similarities between coronaviruses, say virus found in pangolins could jump to humans | Photo Credit: iStock Images
New Delhi: As if the coronavirus mutations happening around the wrld were not worrisome enough, that researchers have now found similarities between coronavirus found in pangolins, and the ones (SARS-CoV-2) found in humans. Researchers have now also revealed that the coronavirus found in these animals could jump to humans, and cause infection.