Coronavirus: Italian scientists find perfect match of Wuhan strain in sample taken from boy

Scientists in Italy have identified a sample of the novel coronavirus collected from a young boy late last year that they say is genetically identical to the earliest strain isolated in the Chinese city of Wuhan almost a year ago.The sample was collected on December 5, 2019 in Milan from a boy who was first thought to have contracted measles, according to the researchers from the University of Milan.It was a “100 per cent match” of a genome segment of the first Sars-CoV-2 viral strain collected…

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