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The Virus in Changping and Fengtai in Beijing is two branches of transmission of the same origin

author:Beijing News

According to CCTV news, on October 24, at the 246th press conference on the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in Beijing, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that the whole genome sequencing results of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the confirmed cases of the cluster epidemic in Changping District showed that the virus was a Delta variant. Sequence comparison showed that the virus of the outbreak was highly homologous to the virus of recently reported cases in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and other places in China, and belonged to the same chain of transmission; the virus and the virus of the two confirmed cases in Fengtai District that had been previously reported were two branches of transmission of the same source. The infected people in this epidemic are mainly people aged 55 and above, and they are directly or indirectly related to tourism in Inner Mongolia.

Edited by Yanting Chen

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