Scotland introduces two-week grace period for venues; Turkey says it will ‘never’ close schools again despite recent rise in infections
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Some people possess a version of a gene which can potentially restrain the virus which causes Covid-19, a study has indicated.
The findings offer an explanation for why some people have better natural defences against serious Sars-CoV-2 infection, say scientists.
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