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The novel coronavirus has entered our lives for good since the end of February and has brought drastic changes, with lots of information bombarding us every day as the scientific and other information is constantly changing.

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus demonstrates significant genomic diversity and plasticity within its hosts, and has regions in its genome that are prone to genomic alterations - including a potential recombination hotspot - according to a pioneering study by scientists at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute (EIP), in collaboration with Professor of epidemiology at the Athens University Medical School, Sotiris Tsiodras.