Sequences (COVID)

Aalborg University has released (at GISAID) a UK COVID Variant sequence, Denmark/DCGC-20161/2020, collected Dec 27.

RIVM has released (at GISAID) two UK Variant COVID sequences (Netherlands/GE-RIVM-20637/2020 & Netherlands/GE-RIVM-20709/2020) from Dec 22 collections from 26 year olds.

RIVM has released (at GISAID) three UK COVID variant sequences (Netherlands/NH-RIVM-20635/2020, Netherlands/NH-RIVM-20631/2020, Netherlands/NH-RIVM-20652/2020) collected between Nov 29 and Dec 21.

NIMHANS has released (at GISAID) a UK COVID Variant sequence, India/KA-NIMH-SEQ-8/2020, collected Dec 22.

New South Wales Health Pathology Randwick has released (at GISAID) a UK Variant sequence, Australia/NSW1242/2020, collected in Dec

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has released (at GISAID) a UK variant sequence, India/TG-CCMB-BB566/2020, from a Dec 25 collection from 25M.

Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec has released (at GISAID) a UK variant COVID sequence collected Dec 15 from a 49F.

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has released (at GISAID) a UK variant COVID sequence, India/AP-CCMB-BB567/2020, collected Dec 25 from a 75M in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata has released (at GISAID) a UK COVID variant sequence, Italy/APU-IZSPB-400PT/2020, collected Dec 21 from 25F.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata has released (at GISAID a UK variant COVID sequence, Italy/APU-IZSPB-399PT/2020, collected Dec 21 from a 32M.

BCCDC Public Health Laboratory has released (at GISAID) the UK Variant sequence, hCoV-19/Canada/BC-BCCDC-9557/2020, from a Dec collection from a patient who had returned from the UK.

Norwegian Institute of Public Health released (at GISAID) a COVID UK variant sequence, Norway/7115/2020, collected Dec 21 in Foerde Norway.

Norwegian Institute of Public Health release (at GISAID) a COVID UK variant sequence, Norway/7129/2020, from a Dec 13 collection in Skien.

INSA has released (at GISAID) 19 UK variant sequences. The relationship of these sequences to the outbreak on Madeira Island is unclear. Most were collected between Dec 17-20, but one, Portugal/PT2108/2020, was collected on Nov 9 and another, Portugal/PT2110/2020, was collected on Dec 7.

Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency has released (at GISAID) three UK COVID variant sequences, South Korea/KDCA0001/2020, South Korea/KDCA0002/2020, South Korea/KDCA0003/2020, collected on Dec 22.

Mater Dei Hospital has released (at GISAID) two partial Spike gene sequences, Malta/MDxMDH10/2020 & Malta/MDxMDH1s/2020 from two females collected Dec 19, which match 5 non-synonymous changes that match the consensus UK variant sequence in and around the receptor binding domain, including codon for N501Y.

Mater Dei Hospital has released (at GISAID) a partial Spike gene sequence, Malta/MDxMDH13/2020, matching 5 non-synonymous changes the UK variant in and around the receptor binding domain, including N501Y, from a Dec 19 collection from a traveler from UK.

University of Helsinki has released (at GISAID) a COVID 501.v2 sequence, Finland/74HEL/2020, from a Dec 19 collection from a traveler from South Africa.

University of Helsinki has released a UK COVID variant sequence, Finland/69HEL/2020, from a Dec 18 collection.

University of Helsinki has released a UK variant sequence, Finland/53HEL/2020, (at GISAID) from Dec 19 from a London traveler.

The Public Health Agency of Sweden has released a UK COVID variant sequence (at GISAID) from a 27F traveler from London collected Dec 20.

ETH Zürich release two South Africa variants (501.v2) at GISAID, Switzerland/un-ETHZ-410256/2020 collected Dec 14 and Switzerland/un-ETHZ-410279/2020 collected Dec 15.

Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre released a UV COVID sequence (at GISAID) from a Dec 12 collection.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo released (at GISAID a UK Variant sequence, Italy/ABR-TE351971/2020, collected Dec 18 from a 25F.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo released three UK Variant sequences, Italy/ABR-TE353967/2020, Italy/ABR-TE353968/2020, Italy/ABR-TE353969/2020 (at GISAID) collected Dec 18 in Ortona Italy.