RNA polymerases are more likely to make copying errors than DNA polymerases and therefore often make mistakes during transcription, this is why mutations in RNA viruses occur more frequently than in DNA viruses.
Every day, beginning from today, courier personnel who are primarily from local meal delivery and e-commerce platforms are subjected to a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and antigen self-testing.
To confirm the diagnosis, a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR test can be done, which can detect very small amounts of viral RNA.
Now this virus is a single-stranded RNA virus, and it's also a negative sense, meaning it first has to be transcribed by RNA polymerase into a positive-sense mRNA strand.