Three separate studies suggest the unprecedented mass quarantine measures taken to limit the spread of the deadly coronavirus in China may have changed its genetic course, potentially making it more “insidious” and harder to detect.Clinical researchers in Wuhan, where the new virus strain first emerged in December, say that locking down millions of people may have caused mutations in the genetic make-up of the coronavirus that resulted in milder symptoms of the pneumonia-like illness, or no initial symptoms at all in the early stage of infection.
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