Institut Pasteur sequences the whole genome of the Wuhan coronavirus, 2019-nCoV

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On January 24, 2020, the French Ministry of Health confirmed the first three cases of patients affected by the Wuhan coronavirus. On January 29, 2020, the Institut Pasteur, which is responsible for monitoring respiratory viruses in France, sequenced the whole genome of the coronavirus known as "2019-nCoV", becoming the first institution in Europe to sequence the virus since the start of the outbreak. The virus was sequenced at the Institut Pasteur's Mutualized Platform for Microbiology (P2M), which performs genome sequencing on bacterial, viral, fungal and parasite strains received by National Reference Centers and World Health Organization Collaborating Centers for the purpose of infectious disease surveillance.

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[RoadRunner44]

Fantastic reading! Very simple to understand the sequence of events which has csused the corona virus to become established and passed on. The contents will be reassuring to us all as it appears the scientists are on top of it and hopefully a vaccine will be found. Many thanks, I wouldn't know where to start looking for such information.

[Tugun]

Hi,

It's good to know that there are antiviral medications out there that can help. A journalist pushed an answer from one of our researchers in Australia. At the earliest it will take approximately 4-6 months to come up with a vaccine and have it ready to distribute. Let's hope some researchers can quicken that estimate. In the meantime I am grateful for the antiviral medications.