Thread by @EllingUlrich

🇦🇹 Representative genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Austria week 11, 2023 across most regions. Current analysis includes samples until March 9th allowing faithful nowcasting. A collaboration of #AGES @agesnews and @IMBA_Vienna/@oeaw.
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With 2688 successfully sequenced samples this week Austria still has a remarkably good overview over the pandemic and become an international role model in surveillance.
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Austria is past the XBB.1.5 peak and also EG.1 (a.k.a. XBB.1.9.2.1) will not mount another peak here. But we detected another two cases of XBB.1.16, which deserves close monitoring as only the latter, but not XBB.1.5, appears to result in growing incidences in India.
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If you are curious, here is the regional analysis of our sequencing pipeline:
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And here a more fine-grained analysis on the individual mutations over the last weeks:
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So the current wave, by sewage signal similar to the first Omicron waves, is slowing down. Given the regularity of this, the next one is up in summer if XBB.1.16 does not surprise us before.
Have a good weekend!
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