On 28 February, the Brazilian government reported 182 suspected cases in 17 states; 72 of the previous day cases were discarded.[16] That same day, Brazilian scientists from Adolfo Lutz Institute and the University of São Paulo's Tropical Medicine Institute—part of the Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnostics, Genomics & Epidemiology—announced the sequencing of the COVID-19 genome of the first case reported in Brazil, in a record time of just two days.[17] This discovery will assist in improving the diagnosis and control measures to curb the spread of the disease.[18]