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6:54 AM 7/21/2020 - Genomic fingerprinting of covid-19 - GS | Russia's COVID-19 strain did not come from China

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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 were able to trace the Melbourne outbreaks bac