Bhubaneswar, Aug. 1 -- Bhubaneswar: The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar on Saturday informed that the source of transmission of Covid19 virus, SARS-nCoV in Odisha could be attributed mostly to South East Asia and Europe.

ILS Director, Ajay Parida informed about the same while sharing the details of the genome sequencing of as many as 1062 viral genomes from 18 states of India. The detailed report on the findings of this genome sequencing study was released by Union Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Saturday.

The joint study was conducted by RMRC, Bhubaneswar, and Institute of Life Science from Odisha apart from various other autonomous institutes of the Department of Biotechnology including NIBMG, Kalyani; CDFD, Hyderabad; NCC...