Scientist From Wuhan Lab Warns The World of More Deadly Variants of Coronavirus Set to Emerge

A Chinese scientist, Shi Zhengli, has issued a stern warning to the world that more deadly Covid variants are coming.

 
The Wuhan-based virologist popularly known as “batwoman”, is one of the world’s top researchers on coronaviruses and has discovered dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves.

 
She studied samples taken from some of the first people to become infected with the new and past mysterious respiratory illness in China in December 2019 and found it was similar to SARS.
 

Speaking in an interview, she cautioned the world that more deadly variants of Covid could sweep the globe amid fears of a calamitous fresh mutation.
 
The scientist speaking to some sources said: “As the number of infected cases has just become too big, this allowed the novel coronavirus more opportunities to mutate and select.
 
“New variants will continue to emerge.”
 
This came after reports spread that a new Covid mutant could emerge which could kill more than a third of the people it infects.
 
Documents published by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said that future strains of the novel coronavirus could be as deadly as theMiddle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) which is a contagious, sometimes fatal respiratory illness. I

t’s often spread through close contact with an infected person. In such a scenario, the virus could kill 35 per cent of those it infects.
 
The panel, which advises the government on its pandemic response, warned that such mutations are most likely to occur when the virus is widely spread.