Latest SARS-CoV-2 lineage of concern report for 2021-02-04 available at cov-lineages.org/global_report.
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73 countries have reported cases of lineage B.1.1.7, 58 of which have reported sequences on GISAID.
A total of 44,037 sequences on GISAID assigned B.1.1.7, from 57 countries. 40,302 of these sequences are from the UK. Gambia is newly represented among countries previously represented by public B.1.1.7 sequences.
Today 32 countries have reported cases of lineage B.1.351 (Variant 501Y.V2). Newly reported cases of this lineage in Turkey: aa.com.tr/en/health/turk…, currently unclear whether these cases are associated with imports as no mention of travel history in the report.
828 sequences on GISAID were assigned lineage B.1.351 by pangolin from 25 countries, 549 of those were from South Africa.
As of today, 11 countries have reported cases of lineage P.1. New reports of cases of P.1 from France (reuters.com/article/health…) and Turkey (aa.com.tr/en/health/turk…).
There are now 66 sequences on GISAID that have been assigned P.1 by pangolin, from 7 different countries: Brazil 51, Japan 4, USA 3, Italy 3, France 3, South_Korea 1, Faroe_Islands 1
Please alert us of any reports of lineages of concern that we may not have covered either via Twitter or GitHub pull request here: github.com/cov-lineages/g…
Find the full report for 2021-02-04 at cov-lineages.org/global_report.…
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