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.

The alarm was terminated by lab officials who examined two specimens from Thriasio that were suspected of being coronavirus.

It is no longer speculation, as the National Influenza Report Lab for southern Greece, a department of the Pasteur Institute confirms the flu virus has been spreading rapidly in the country.