London, 6 April 2021:
Libya and Spain have cooperated in a study on Coronavirus mutations, Spanish Ambassador Javier Garcia-Larrache revealed yesterday.
The Ambassador participated yesterday in the meeting held at the Libyan Biotechnology Research Centre in Tripoli with Deputy head of the Presidency Council, Musa Koni, and Libya’s Ministers of Education and Higher Education.
The meeting presented the results of the first comparative study in Libya on mutations of the Coronavirus, carried out by Libyan scientific institutions / the Biotechnology Research Centre by employing advanced genomic sequencing technology, taking into account the genetic and spatial diversity of the population. Their discoveries mark an important step in the response to the pandemic, Moussa Koni said.