MOSCOW, Jan 29 —Russia and China are working to develop a coronavirus vaccine and Beijing has handed over the genome of the virus to Moscow, a Russian diplomatic mission in China said today. The death toll in China from coronavirus rose to 132 today with the number of confirmed cases now at...
The virus outbreak in China has had health authorities on alert worldwide. — Reuters pic
The death toll in China from coronavirus rose to 132 today with the number of confirmed cases now at nearly 6,000. It was not clear if Russian and Chinese scientists were working together or separately. The consulate in Guangzhou could not be reached for comment. “The Chinese side handed over the virus genome to Russia, which has allowed our scientists to rapidly develop express-tests that make it possible to identify the virus in the human body within two hours,” the consulate said in the statement.
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