The government and the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser have today (Monday 23 March) backed the UK’s leading clinicians and scientists to map how COVID-19 spreads and behaves by using whole genome sequencing. Through a £20 million investment, the consortium will look for breakthroughs that help the UK respond to this and future pandemics, and save lives.

For full details see: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2020/03/birmingham-joins-covid-19-genome-sequencing-alliance-to-map-spread-of-coronavirus.aspx