“Covid-19”, the new coronavirus – L’Express

Covid 19 the new coronavirus

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A “cousin” coronavirus of SARS, baptized SARS-CoV-2, transmissible between humans, has been spreading since December 2019 around the world. The offending strain is a new type of coronavirus that causes a disease called Covid-19. The latter can cause mild symptoms in humans, but also other more serious ones that can lead to the death of the host, particularly if he is old or has one or more comorbidities. To date, the Covid-19 has already killed more than 6.44 million people worldwide, while more than 590 million cases have been officially diagnosed.Part of a market in the city of Wuhan, in the center from China, the coronavirus then spread to the country’s major cities, then to neighboring states such as Japan and South Korea, before spreading to the rest of the world, from the United States – the most affected country in the world both in number of deaths and cases – via European countries, including France.

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