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Coronavirus replicates in throat making it easy to transmit, German scientists say

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Scientists in Germany have determined that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can rapidly replicate within people’s throats, making it far easier than Sars virus for it to be transmitted from one person to the next.The study, which was published in Nature on April 1, was conducted by teams from Berlin, Munich and Cambridge, and based on the clinical treatment of a group of nine Covid-19 patients.The findings suggest that the new coronavirus can easily spread through droplets, indicating that…

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