Ghanaian scientists have finally found the sequenced genomes of coronavirus – Dr Bawumia confirms

The battle against the deadly coronavirus is still on and the Vice President of Ghana, H.E Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has shared a piece of good news on his social media with all Ghanaians concerning the progress Ghanaian scientists have made so far.

According to the vice president of Ghana, Dr Bawumia, scientists at Noguchi and WACCBIP have successfully found the sequenced genomes of the virus responsible for the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease.

He wrote;

Our Ghanaian scientists at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) at the University of Ghana have successfully found the sequenced genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic.

This is a major contribution to science in the fight against COVID-19 and something for which all Ghanaians should be proud of.

We have the capability and our research institutions do make significant contributions to science. We can do it if we put our minds to it!

I am proud of our scientists!

Genome sequencing is ostensibly the process of determining the complete DNA sequence of an organism’s genome at a single time. This entails sequencing all of an organism’s chromosomal DNA as well as DNA contained in the mitochondria and, for plants, in the chloroplast.