A new hospital was rapidly built in Wuhan, China, in early 2020 STR/AFP via Getty Images
On 31 December 2019, about a cluster of 鈥渧iral pneumonia鈥 cases of unknown cause in the city of Wuhan. Two years later, the coronavirus now known as SARS鈥慍oV-2 has resulted in at least 5.3 million deaths. As the world awaits the full impact of the new variant omicron, New Scientist looks back at the phenomenal scientific endeavour across the pandemic, and at how much we now know about the virus and how to fight it.…
