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Researchers say the changing climate and habitat destruction have driven virus-carrying species into ever closer contact with humans
Climate change may have played a key role in the transmission of the coronavirus to humans by driving several species of pathogen-carrying bats into closer contact, research shows.
The virus, which has killed more than two million people and caused unprecedented global disruption, is thought to have originated in bats in southeast Asia.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge used temperature and rainfall data over the last 100 years to model populations of dozens of bat species based on their habitat requirements.
New variations of the virus are plunging already reeling countries into fresh lockdowns
Nurses talk in front of the 28 de Agosto Hospital in Manaus, Amazon State, Brazil. AFP
A healthcare worker uses a pipette to process Covid-19 test samples at the SpiceHealth Genome Sequencing Laboratory set up at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India. Bloomberg
A health worker prepares an injection with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Hospital Infantil in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Reuters
An undertaker sprays disinfectant liquid around the grave of a person that passed away due to Covid-19 at Glen Forest cemetery in Harare. AFP