On 31st December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) documented a novel coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [1]. The pilot case started from Wuhan, China and got spread globally via transmission through the person to person contact. Coronavirus is a single stranded RNA virus. Its length is 26 to 36 kilo-bases. As per nomenclature, it belongs to subfamily Coronavirinae, family Coronaviridae, order Nidovirales. On the basis of genomic and serological changes, Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Gammacoronavirus and Deltacoronavirus are the four major genera of subfamily Coronavirinae.

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Citation: Ashok Rattan., et al. “Mutation: In spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 Variant”.Acta Scientific Microbiology 4.2 (2021): 51-53.

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