A Jordanian laboratory announced that it had succeeded in achieving a scientific breakthrough by revealing the DNA data of the new corona virus emerging in the Kingdom, indicating that the preliminary results of the analysis showed the countries from which the virus entered the Kingdom.
The medical laboratory confirmed that it had succeeded, with the support of the Ministry of Health and the Jordanian Epidemiological Committee, in achieving this achievement, and publishing data on the global genetic platform GISAID. To make Jordan one of the first Arab countries to be included on the global map of epidemics.
The laboratory's chief executive officer, Dr. Dean Abdel-Nour, said that the preliminary results of the analysis indicated the countries from which the virus entered the Kingdom, the most important of which are Britain, the United States of America, Italy and Spain, as reported by media reports today.
Abdelnour added that the results revealed the existence of more than one type of mutations related to strains present in Jordan, which will enable future research to include Jordanian data in the plans to produce any vaccine against the virus in the near future, noting that it is striking that the strain coming from Spain is distinguished by its having mutations that may Of particular importance in understanding the aggressiveness of the virus.