Chinanews.com Haikou, August 9th (Reporter Zhang Qianyi) The Haikou City News Conference on the Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia Epidemic on the 9th introduced the preliminary determination of the source of the virus infection of Lin Moumou, a confirmed case of the new coronary pneumonia in Haikou on August 5 Inbound cargo flights to Russia from Haikou Meilan Airport.

  Mo Shaoxiong, an expert from the Haikou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at the press conference that according to the analysis and comparison of the gene sequencing results issued by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Hainan Medical College, the results of the virus gene sequencing of the confirmed case Lin Moumou in Haikou on August 5 Highly consistent with the test results of imported cases in Russia, and low homology with recent local cases, imported cases in China, and the new coronavirus genome from the global genetic database. It can be preliminarily determined that the virus infected is highly suspected to originate from Haikou Meilan Airport Russian inbound cargo flight.

  According to the previous press conference, Lin Moumou is a porter in the international cargo department of Haikou Meilan Airport.

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