China News Service, November 10, According to the official Weibo news of the Tianjin Municipal People’s Government Information Office, on November 8, the Tianjin Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a smear sample on the respiratory tract specimens of the city’s 138th local confirmed case and the relevant cold storage environment. High-throughput sequencing and sequence analysis of the whole genome of the new coronavirus.
The results of sequencing analysis on the 9th showed that it was highly similar to the strains circulating in North America from March to June, and belonged to the L genotype European family branch II (North American branch).
Screenshot of the official Weibo of Tianjin Municipal People's Government Information Office