On the evening of November 5, the Information Office of the Chengdu Municipal People's Government of Sichuan Province held a press conference on the prevention and control of the epidemic in Chengdu.

It was revealed at the meeting that the disease control in Sichuan Province and Chengdu City has completed the full gene sequencing of the first three local cases of the new coronavirus in Chengdu and confirmed that it is a Delta mutant strain, which is homologous to the epidemic virus in Northwest China.

(Chen Xuanbin produced Zhou Jing)

Editor in charge: [Zhang Aolin]