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no. Inside a virus, there are only mostly genetic materials and enzymes. It doesn't have any organel and is too simple to survive, or even to digest simple sugar on it's own. To replicate, it gets into a living cell and hijack it.

So virus doesn't need simple sugar as it's simply hijacker, but the host cell may need it

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