摘要
Dear Editor,The occurrence of concentrated pneumonia cases in Wuhan city,Hubei province of China was first reported on December 30,2019 by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission(WHO,2020).The pneumonia cases were found to be linked to a large seafood and animal market in Wuhan,and measures for sanitation and disinfection were taken swiftly by the local government agency.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)and Chinese health authorities later determined and announced that a novel coronavirus(CoV),denoted as 2019-nCoV,had caused the pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan city(CDC,2020).Scientists from multiple groups had obtained the virus samples from hospitalized patients(Normile,2020).The isolated viruses were morphologically identical when observed under electron microscopy.
基金
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Science and Technology Major Projects for“Major New Drugs Innovation and Development”(directed by Dr.Song Li)(2018ZX09711003)of China
the National Key R&D Program(2018YFC0310600)of China
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31771412)
Special Fund for strategic bio-resources from Chinese Academy of Sciences(ZSYS-014).
