How Can Bats Survive The COVID Virus?

Update: 2020-04-16 07:08 GMT
Ever since the deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus scientists across the world are leaving no stones unturned to figure out of the history of the virus and how it got infected to the humans.

Many scientists are in the opinion that the deadly virus was infected to the humans from the bats. This forced them to test the samples of the positive patients of COVID in the Wuhan province of China.

When the samples were compared to the other genetic sequences the genetics got matched by 96% with that of the virus which is found in the horseshoe bats. Following this, the scientists were trying to figure out how come the virus got transmitted from bats to humans.

The origin of the dreaded virus can be known if the scientists find out the carrier animal which is expected to be the bridge through which the virus got transmitted. It is also believed that the virus got infected to a carrier animal and humans from the animal

'Researchers and research institutions should be free to share knowledge without oversight in general, provided it has been conducted according to our current ethical conventions and standards,' a virologist at the Duke–NUS Medical School in Singapore said.
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