Coronavirus has not mutated in US, says CDC | The Malaysian Insight

People wearing masks in Chinatown, New York, yesterday. Five people are confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus in the United States. – EPA pic, January 28, 2020.

US health authorities said yesterday they have sequenced the genome of the first two cases of the Chinese coronavirus reported in the country and confirmed the virus has not mutated since leaving China. Nancy Messonnier, head of respiratory diseases at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said she was planning imminent changes on measures to control and track the deadly virus, beyond the current restrictions just on travellers arriving from the city Wuhan, which is at the epicentre of the outbreak.

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