SA scientists make COVID-19 breakthrough

A team of scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases

and the South African Bioinformatics Institute have successfully sequenced, 

a local sample of the SARS-COV-2 genome, the virus which causes COVID-19.

This breakthrough will help scientists to understand how the virus,

moves from one person to another, and how the spread can be contained.

Peter van Heusden, a Researcher at the University of the Western Cape and Bioinformatics Institute

joined us via Skype to share more information on this breakthrough.