BEIJING (Reuters) – China has published the genome data for the coronavirus behind the latest COVID-19 outbreak in the capital city of Beijing, the website of state-backed National Microbiology Data Center showed on Friday.
State-backed Beijing News also reported that the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention submitted the genome sequencing data for the virus to the World Health Organization, which had previously sought access to the data.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo and Roxanne Liu; writing by Se Young Lee; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
