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YANTAI, CHINA - APRIL 25, 2022 - A medical worker takes nucleic acid samples for a citizen at a nucleic acid sampling site in Yantai, East China's Shandong Province, April 25, 2022. From 00:00 to 24:00 on April 24, 36 new cases were reported in Yantai. The whole genome of the virus was sequenced in Yantai for the first time. Up to now, gene sequencing analysis of 16 local cases in 4 districts and cities has been completed, which belong to the same transmission chain. The genotype of the case is Omicron BA.2.3 evolutionary branch, which has not been found in China before. Photo Credit: CFOTO/ Sipa USA/ Fotoarena
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