Ómicron: the new variant of coronavirus could have originated in mice Hypothesis of a research carried out in China


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A study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) supported the theory that the variant Omicron, classified as “worrying” by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to its rapid spread, it may have originated in mice. Cablera Télam (telam.com.ar) were able to determine that Ómicron was developed from a strain that was circulating in mid-2020 but they could not trace any intermediate version that explains such a number of mutations. The Chinese investigation, directed by Jianguo Xu and published in the Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, proposes in this sense that the most likely intermediate host between...