Beijing finds similarities in cases after genome sequencing of COVID virus


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Staff members of the local community are seen at Fulitaoyuan residential community in Xisanqi, Haidian district, in Beijing on Nov 11. [Photo by Wei Xiaohao/chinadaily.com.cn] Beijing has completed whole genome sequencing of COVID-19 virus from the five confirmed locally transmitted cases that were reported on Thursday. The results showed that the genome is highly homologous, or similar, to the previous ones found in Beijing. This was announced by the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday. "It's very possible that those cases are on the same transmission chain of the previous clusters in Beijing's Fengtai, Haidian and Changping...