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But the Chinese media organization Caixin reported in February 2020 that several Chinese companies had sequenced the virus in late December 2019, before the Chinese government publicized the discovery of a novel coronavirus.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 18, 2024

The country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said 74% of all the virus genomes it had sequenced last month had been of the new variant.

From Reuters • Dec. 2, 2021

He was a serious scientist who had sequenced thousands of virus genomes in his career.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2021

By Jan. 7, another team at Wuhan University had sequenced the pathogen and found it matched Shi’s, making Shi certain they had identified a novel coronavirus.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2020

Five days after that, the Chinese confirmed they had sequenced a full coronavirus genome, finding evidence of the pathogen in 15 people.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2020