Italian Scientists in Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases on February 3 has isolate the DNA of the deadly new Wuhan, China coronavirus.
Italian health minister, Roberto Speranza, said he would made available to the international medical community to boost efforts to find therapies for the disease.
Lazzaro Spallanzani who is an Italian Catholic priest biologist and physiologist is currently treating a couple of Chinese tourists who have the virus.
epa08187583 An undated handout photo made available by the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) shows an image of the virus ‘2019-nCoV/Italy-INMI1’ (Viral isolation on cells Vero E6). ‘We have isolated the coronavirus’ said the Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza during a press conference at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, Italy, on 02 February 2020. ‘Having isolated the virus means many opportunities to study, understand and better verify what you can do it to block the spread. It will be made available to the whole international community. Now it will be easier to treat it.’ EPA/INMI SPALLANZANI HOSPITAL PRESS OFFICE HANDOUT — BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE — HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES/2020-02-02 21:00:19/