Monthly archive for May 2020

ITALY and COVID-19 On 31 January, the Italian government suspended all flights to and from China and declared a state of emergency. In February, eleven municipalities in northern Italy were identified as the centers of the two main Italian clusters and placed under quarantine. The majority of

May 6, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is an infectious disease caused by the virus named “coronavirus” (SARS-CoV-2). This virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The closest gene to SARS-CoV-2 is the RaTG13 virus that came from bats. “The closest level of genome sequence