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Animals could act as Covid-19 reservoirs

23 September 2020

Farmed minks in Norway have tested positive for Covid-19, meaning that even if the disease is wiped out in humans it could potentially be dormant within animals and reinfect people that way, explains Professor Joanne Santini (UCL Biosciences).

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