: Genome sequencing conducted on Covid-19 virus samples has helped the Health Ministry in its planning to improve preparedness to deal with the pandemic.
“We have implemented from the beginning. For instance, we found there were 692 individuals from Indonesia in the Sri Petaling tabligh gathering cluster. At that time our prediction was that the virus transmission had come from Indonesia but when a subsequent genome sequencing was conducted we discovered that the transmission originated from a strain identified in Indonesia.
He was responding to a question following a statement by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clarke yesterday stating that the sequencing of the genome of patients infected with Covid-19 gives New Zealand an advantage in dealing with the outbreak. He said the method helps MOH to learn more about the characteristics of the virus by studying certain clusters and strains but it takes up to three weeks to identify each mutation.
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