So far no African country has reported any case of the disease
Doctors at Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases have managed to isolate the DNA of the deadly new Chinese Coronavirus. The development is massive breakthrough that would aid the search for treatment of the disease.
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said the findings would be made available to the international medical community to boost efforts to find therapies for the disease.
The Lazzaro Spallanzani is a specialised infectious diseases institute outside the Italian capital Rome, and is currently treating a couple of Chinese tourists who have the virus. About 370 people have now been confirmed dead from this deadly virus which broke out of the Chinese Province of Wuhan. So far no African country has reported any case of the disease.
