Questions:
1. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a ‘public health emergency of international concern’. Name the rules, first adopted in 1969, that require the WHO’s member states to respond swiftly in response to such a declaration.
2. The virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. The ‘positive-sense’ refers to a genome that functions as a ____ molecule. The virus uses this molecule as a template based on which a cell, like in the human body, can ‘manufacture’ more copies of the virus. Fill in the blank.
