In Bangladesh, the number of COVID-19 cases has surged past 44,000 with 610 fatalities. "The whole genome sequencing process play a crucial role in the development of a vaccine. The National Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Referral Centre are collecting COVID-19 samples for the genomic researchers conducting the study. "The data analysis showed the virus in Bangladesh bore the most similarities with the strain that circulated in European, particularly in Sweden. But we don't enough full sequencing data to reach a definitive conclusion yet."

Source: bd News24 May 30, 2020 14:37 UTC