Breaking News

COVID-19 Pandemic

Up Close With the Enemy: Coronavirus in Stunning Detail

March 31, 2020 12:57 PM

By RFE/RL

SARS-CoV-2 virions emerge from a human cell after replicating. Despite their apparent longevity, the virions can be destroyed with warm, soapy water. (Courtesy: U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Click on the link below for a look at what's going on with the pandemic-causing coronavirus at the microscopic level.

A cluster of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) virions -- entire virus particles -- viewed through an electron microscope. (Courtesy: U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Up Close with The Enemy: The Coronavirus in Stunning Detail

More stories

CIA: COVID likely originated in a lab, but agency has ‘low confidence’ in report

XS

SM

MD

LG