Genetic tracing of HCoV-19 for the re-emerging outbreak of COVID-19 in Beijing,China

• 作者: Jing Yang Peihua Niu Lijuan Chen Liang Wang Li Zhao Baoying Huang Juncai Ma Songnian Hu Linhuan Wu Guizhen Wu Chun Huang Yuhai Bi Wenjie Tan
• 来源期刊: 蛋白质与细胞
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: HIGHLIGHT
• 页码范围: 4-6
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2,also named as 2019-nCoV or HCoV-19)poses an unprecedented threat to public health(Zhu et al.,2020;Wang et al.,2020;Jiang et al.,2020).The novel HCoV-19 virus has rapidly spread into multiple countries across the world since it was first reported in December 2019.The World Health Organization(WHO)declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11th March 2020.As of 4th July,over 10 million confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported in over 200 countries/regions with more than 0.5 million deaths,including 85,287 documented cases and 4,648 deaths in China(WHO,2020a).