Visit our Covid-19 microsite for the latest coronavirus news, analysis and updates Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Australia have mapped Covid-19 immune response from an affected patient in the country.
The mapping is said to indicate that the human body possesses the ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection.
Doherty Institute team analysed blood samples at four different time points in a woman in her 40s who required hospitalisation due to mild-to-moderate Covid-19 symptoms but was otherwise in a healthy state.
The findings of the patient’s immune response to the novel coronavirus have been published in Nature Medicine journal. Research author Dr Oanh Nguyen noted that this is