Scientists have discovered Australia is in the grips of two different strains of coronavirus. Instead, the pandemic's ground-zero was mainly hit by type B, which was in circulation as far back as Christmas Eve. Type B was also the dominant strain across large parts of the United Kingdom and Europe, but has not made it to Australia. Type C was an offshoot of Type B, mutating from the secondary strain and spreading to Europe and Australia via Singapore. The smaller snapshot, published in the journal PNAS, initially suggested that type C was the most common in Europe.

Source: Daily Mail April 11, 2020 03:35 UTC