Coronavirus: Australian scientists first to recreate virus outside China

Its not all beer and bushfires in Australia:

• Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity on Tuesday became the world's first scientific lab outside of China to copy the virus.
• "This will be a game changer for other labs within Australia," Doherty Institute lead scientist Julian Druce. Growing the virus will also help experts understand more about how coronavirus behaves.

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