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According to South China Morning Post, The swift discovery of a new strain of coronavirus is a “notable achievement”, but more information is needed to understand it, experts said after China identified the mystery pneumonia behind an outbreak in Wuhan that infected 59 people.
A top official at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told state news agency Xinhua on Thursday that laboratory tests had identified the new virus and the whole genome sequence had been obtained.
Fifteen patients in Wuhan, Hubei province, had tested positive for the virus, which showed “typical coronavirus morphology”, according to Xu Jianguo, director of the CDC’s National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, who headed a group of experts to identify the illness.
“The pathogen of these unexplained cases of viral pneumonia was initially identified as a new type of coronavirus,” he said, adding that initial identification needed to be followed up with further research.
Read more article on South China Morning Post→ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3045288/china-confirms-new-coronavirus-it-investigates-mystery-wuhan
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