Tracking the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants in South Africa
Anise N. Happi, Chinedu Ugwu, Christian Happi
Abstract
A large genomic surveillance effort in South Africa produced 1,365 high-quality whole genomes of SARS-CoV-2; this has identified 16 new lineages of the virus that had not been identified in other countries.
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