Russian Expert: New Strains of Coronavirus Threaten World

Professor Dr. Gyorgyi Pazikin, a Russian expert and Head of the Molecular Development Sector at the Institute for Information Transfer Problems, has announced that the various changes and mutations of the Coronavirus can affect the course of the pandemic in different countries across the world.

Pazikin added that scientists are studying the changes of the virus nowadays to know whether "these changes affect in some way its pathological properties.

The Russian expert went on to say that there have been several studies, indicating that a specific version of the virus is spreading in Europe and causing many deaths.

For example a specific version of the COVID-19 was sweeping in China and Italy which claimed souls of ten thousands of people in the two countries. But there is a difference in the numbers of deaths.

However, this problem couldn't be viewed unilaterally because many complications lie in the differences between China and Italy, as well as different strains of the virus. Therefore, it is difficult to separate the characteristics of the virus from the epidemiological characteristics of strains infecting people in both of the countries.

Scientists have discovered that there are six copies of "COVID-19" spread in the world unevenly, some of those copies sweep only in the United States of America (USA), and other countries in Europe and South America.

Researchers at Pennsylvania University, USA, confirm that analyzing the structure of the Coronavirus in more than 10 thousand samples taken from different regions in the world, showed that there are six different copies of the virus which are spreading in the world today.

They have devised an algorithm, with which it can help develop a rapid sequence of the virus's genome and unify the results in groups.

In this way they studied 10.4 thousand forms of SARS-CoV-2 virus and it became clear to them that there are six copies of the virus circulating in the world.

Scientists have been seeking since the early days of the virus to understand how it evolves and in what direction

Now it is known that it is changing at the same speed as the influenza virus. however, it remains unclear, how these changes affect infection and other virus characteristics.

The researchers reduced the volume of data analyzed, and identified differences in bacterial or viral DNA that uniquely alter the structure of proteins or signal molecules.

With the same technique, the researchers combined the COVID-19 etiology into six large cloned groups, consisting of strains of bacteria and related viruses.

Interestingly, these results allowed the scientific team to isolate the changes that occurred in most strains of the virus, as well as discovering parts of the virus structure that have not changed since the beginning of the pandemic.

Researchers hope that the results of their study help to create vaccines and anti-drug for all copies of the virus.