Pretorius

At Taunton, overseas seamers Matt Henry and Migael Pretorius will share a lot of the work, while Essex's preparations were upset with the loss of India fast bowler Shardul Thakur barely two weeks before the start of the season - but they do still have Simon Harmer in their armoury.

Pretorius suspects that SARS-CoV-2’s infamous spike protein interacts with the fibrinogen protein and causes it to change its shape.

The new findings are “very exciting,” says Resia Pretorius, a physiologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

"It's very depressing. It's very concerning. Our country is in a serious, dark place," said Paul Pretorius, a lawyer who played a key role at a recent public inquiry into the state corruption that flourished under former President Jacob Zuma.

The rejiggered equations split four-dimensional space-time into slices of three-dimensional space, an innovation that allowed computers to handle the complex data and, as Frans Pretorius, a professor of physics at Princeton University, put it, “evolve these slices in time to find the full solution.”