The Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong announced on November 30 that it had successfully isolated a new coronavirus mutant Omi Keron strain from clinical specimens.
This is the first research team in Asia to successfully isolate and cultivate the Omi Keron strain, and the isolated strain will be used to develop and produce inactivated whole virus vaccines.
According to previous reports, the Health Protection Center of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on November 25 that genome sequencing confirmed that two positive cases in Hong Kong were infected with the Omi Keron mutant.
Only 4 days after the 25th, the Hong Kong University team successfully isolated the mutant strain.
(Producing Sui Zhiyuan)
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