On May 16, the Office of the Comprehensive Emergency Command for the Prevention and Control of New Coronary Pneumonia in Anhui Province held a press conference.

  Dong Mingpei, deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Health Commission and director of the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in order to trace the source of science, the Anhui Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted genetic sequencing of patient specimens, and found no mutations that caused high pathogenicity and high infectiousness. Highly infectious variants that are currently prevalent in India and South Africa.

(Reporter Wu Lan produced Lu Huiqian)

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