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COVID-19: genome sequencing to be used to analyse the virus

The government and the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser have invested £20 million to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by using whole genome sequencing. 

The government and the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser have invested £20 million to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by using whole genome sequencing.  COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium – comprised of the NHS, Public Health Agencies, Wellcome Sanger Institute, and numerous academic institutions – will deliver large scale, rapid sequencing of the cause of the disease and share intelligence with hospitals, regional NHS centres and the government. Samples from patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 will be sent to a network of sequencing centres which currently includes Belfast, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford and Sheffield. The Wellcome Sanger Institute, one

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