Original sentence: On 8 January 2020, a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was announced by Chinese scientists as the cause of the new disease.The virus was first partially sequenced on 26 December 2019, but not fully sequenced or released to the public until 5 January when Zhang Yongzhen published the sequence on the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)'s Genbank database.This was in direct opposition to a January 3 order by China's National Health Commission, which forbid the publishing of material about the disease without permission from the NHC and mandated the destruction of samples in most Chinese labs for biosafety reasons
Edited sentence: On 8 January 2020, a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was identified by Chinese scientists as the cause of the symptoms