Russian scientists from the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza have managed to decode the first full genome of the coronavirus, the Russian news agency TASS reported.
“Experts of the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza and the Russian Health Ministry sequenced the first full genome of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in Russia from the material taken from a COVID-19 patient,” the Russian Health Ministry informed.
“This coronavirus is new to us, so it is crucial to have an opportunity to determine the pattern of its spread and entry on the territory of our country, and the way the virus changes. This information will help us work out vaccines and antiviral drugs to treat the coronavirus,” Acting Director of the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza Dmitry Lioznov stated.
The data had been sent to the international database used by the World Health Organization and the world’s leading research teams monitoring the global evolution of the novel coronavirus.
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