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Coronavirus: How genome testing is helping identify Covid-19 clusters – Stuff.co.nz
The testing “gives us a clue about who was infected first” and helps map out how the virus is travelling.
Genome sequencing of the coronavirus in samples from people with Covid-19 has revealed that one of the new cases identified in Auckland was not linked to all the others.
Partial genome sequence results indicated the infected man, a maintenance worker at the Rydges Hotel managed isolation facility in Auckland, was not linked to the rest of the Auckland August cluster, Crown research institute ESR said on Tuesday.
Rather, preliminary results showed that genome sequence most closely matched a p…
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