Genetic mutations of coronavirus shed light on how infected foreign worker and local pastor are linked

Mr Raju Sarker (left), part of the Seletar Aerospace Heights construction site cluster, and the Reverend Wilson Teo, part of the Grace Assembly of God church cluster, were found to have been infected by the same clade, or branch, of the coronavirus. PHOTOS: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE - One is a Bangladeshi worker whose baby was born during the more than two months he spent in intensive care. The other is a local church pastor.

They have more in common than a cursory glance may suggest.

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