6:54 AM 7/21/2020 - Genomic fingerprinting of covid-19 - GS | Russia's COVID-19 strain did not come from China
Genomic fingerprinting of covid-19 - GS Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks - Latest Post Russia's COVID-19 strain did not come from China Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks How can genomic fingerprinting help us to trace coronavirus outbreaks? Michael_Novakhov shared this story . If you had told me in January that genomics would become a buzzword in 2020, Id have thought you were crazy. But the COVID-19 pandemic has brought medical science to the top of our nightly news bulletins. And now, it seems, everyone is talking about genomics . During Australias first wave of COVID-19, genomic sequencing of the earliest Sydney clusters was crucial to identifying the difference between imported cases and local community transmissions. And now with a second wave lapping at the New South Wales border, genomic sequencing traced the origin of the Crossroads Hotel cluster back to Victoria, just as Victorian scientists w...