UAE
The National
March 3, 2020
Coronavirus: UAE announces six more cases of Covid-19
Six more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the UAE, the Ministry of Health and Prevention said on Tuesday.
The patients include two Russians, two Italians, a German and a Colombian citizen, who are “in a stable condition and receiving all the necessary health care required”.
The six people had come into contact with two Italian participants of the UAE Tour who tested positive for coronavirus at the weekend, the Ministry said.
The final stages of UAE Tour were subsequently cancelled and two hotels on Yas Island, where cyclists and team members had stayed, were put under quarantine
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Sequencing identifies different genomes in the two Brazilian cases of coronavirus
The genome of the coronavirus (covid-19) isolated in the second Brazilian patient diagnosed with the disease on Saturday, February 29, is different from that found in the first case, confirmed on February 26.
“The first isolate proved to be genetically more similar to the virus sequenced in Germany. This second genome is more similar to that sequenced in England. And both are different from Chinese sequences. This fact suggests that the coronavirus epidemic is maturing in Europe, that is, internal transmission is already occurring in European countries. For a more accurate analysis, however, we need data from Italy, which has not yet been sequenced, ”said Ester Sabino, director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (IMT) at the University of São Paulo (USP), to Agência Fapesp.