To maintain up with adjustments to the virus that causes Covid-19, scientists are utilizing a expertise known as genomic sequencing. The method begins with a Covid-19 take a look at.
Some samples that take a look at constructive for the coronavirus in a laboratory are pulled apart and despatched off for sequencing, a overview of the virus’s genetic materials that may take as little as a day or greater than per week. The SARS-CoV-2 genome has about 30,000 particular person constructing blocks to decode, in contrast with about three billion within the human genome.