Coronavirus isn't mutating fast, long lasting vaccine protection could be possible: Study

Scientists have discovered that vel coronavirus COVID-19 that has taken world by a storm is t mutating significantly as it moves across population, international media reported. This means pathogen is less likely to become more dangerous as it spreads, giving researchers hope that y could create a long-lasting vaccine for deadly virus that has killed over 18,500 people across globe in a matter of few months.

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Similar strains across world 

According to reports, scientists have revealed that re was evidence of deadlier strains in some areas as compared to ors. Previous research suggests that viruses replicate imperfectly inside cells of ir host before spreading through a population, with some of those mutations persisting through natural selection. However, COVID-19 pathogen reportedly has a proofreading mechanism that reduces error rate during ir replication. 

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Scientists w are studying more than 1,000 different samples of virus, Peter Thielen, a molecular geneticist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory who has been studying virus, informed international media. re are only about 4 to 10 genetic differences between strains that have infected people in United States in addition to original virus that spread in China's Wuhan region, he added. 

Researchers believe that SARS-CoV-2, virus that causes disease COVID-19, was similar to coronaviruses that circulate naturally in bats. It jumped into human species last year in Wuhan likely through an intermediate species like pangolins or snakes which are consumed by people in region. 

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