China
detects large quantity of novel coronavirus at Wuhan seafood market
BEIJING
(Xinhua): Experts of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) have successfully isolated the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the
environmental samples of a seafood market in Wuhan, indicating that the virus
stems from wild animals on sale at the market.
Thirty-three
of the 585 environmental samples collected from Wuhan's Huanan Seafood
Wholesale Market were found to contain the nucleic acid of the novel
coronavirus, according to the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and
Prevention under the China CDC.
Earlier
reports quoted experts as saying that the geographical distribution of the
cases indicated a close relationship between the epidemic and the seafood
market.
Experts
of the institute took the samples on Jan 1 and Jan 12 on instruction of the
Chinese CDC.
Thirty-one
of the 33 positive samples were collected from the western zone of the market,
where booths of wildlife trading concentrated. The result suggests that the
novel coronavirus outbreak is highly relevant to the trading of the wild
animals, experts said.
The
successful isolation of the novel coronavirus further substantiates that the
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market contains a large quantity of the novel
coronavirus (2019-nCoV), according to the experts. – Xinhua
.
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