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Scheme of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This virus belongs to the genus β-coronavirus, and it is a crown-like, enveloped, non-segmented, positive-sense single-stranded RNA (+ssRNA) virus. There are four major structural proteins, including a spike surface glycoprotein, small envelope protein, membrane protein, and nucleocapsid protein.
