Sequences (COVID)

Israel Ministry of Health has released 3 more UK COVID variant sequences (at GISAID), Israel/CVL-46754/2020, Israel/CVL-46879/2020, Israel/CVL-46880/2020, from Israel (Dec 20 collection)

Three of five travelers from UK arrived at Kansai Airport in Osaka Japan were UK COVID confirmed, Sequences. Japan/IC-0421/2020, Japan/IC-0422/2020, Japan/IC-0423/2020 matched UK variant with 3 AAs deleted in Spike protein, 3 AAs deleted in NSP6 and Q27 stop codon in NS8.

TIGEM has deposited 6 UK Variant sequences at GISAID (collected Dec 21) Italy/CAM-TIGEM-174/2020, Italy/CAM-TIGEM-175/2020, Italy/CAM-TIGEM-176/2020, Italy/CAM-TIGEM-178/2020, Italy/CAM-TIGEM-179/2020, Italy/CAM-TIGEM-181/2020, from passengers arriving from London at Capodichino Airport.

University of Bari Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology has released a UK Variant COVID sequence (at GISAID), Italy/APU-POLBA01/2020, from a Dec 19 collection form 25F.

National Institute for Infectious Diseases has released two UK Variant sequences (at GISAID), Italy/CAM-INMI-117/2020 and Italy/CAM-INMI-118/2020, from Dec 20 collections from 26F and 27F

National Health labs in Singapore released full sequence (at GISAID), hCoV-19/Singapore/1453/2020, from 17F collected Dec 8. Has all 10 of the Spike mutations, but missing the 9 BP del in NSP6.

Army Medical Center released first UK variant sequence from Lazio, Italy, Italy/LAZ-AMC3-5015/2020 (at GISAID) collected Dec 14.

Clinical Pathology and Microbiology in Rome has released a second UK COVID variant sequence, Italy/LAZ-INMI-116/2020, in Lazio (at GISAID collected from 31M on Dec 21.

Virology Laboratory, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona has released the full Spike gene sequence, Italy/77710AN/2020, (at GISAID - collected Dec 18 from 50M ) which matches the 10 mutations in the UK variant. Media reports of a case in Loreto describe community transmission.

National Virus Reference Laboratory was released (at GISAID) 5 additional UK variant sequences (Ireland/D-NVRL-20IRL10513/2020, Ireland/D-NVRL-20IRL10553/2020, Ireland/D-NVRL-20IRL10527/2020, Ireland/D-NVRL-20IRL10603/2020, Ireland/D-NVRL-20IRL10860/2020) collected on Dec 20 or 21.

Two of the five travelers from UK to Japan arrived at Henda Airport, near Tokyo, and were confirmed to have UK variant. Two, Japan/IC-0419/2020 & Japan/IC-0413/2020, of the five deposits are listed on this thread. Both matched UK variant with 3 AAs deleted in Spike protein, 3 AAs deleted in NSP6, and Q27 stop codon in NS8.

National Virus Reference Laboratory has released UK COVID variant sequences, Ireland/KK-NVRL-20IRL10079/2020 (at GISAID from Dec 19 collection from 21-20F).

Dutch COVID-19 response team has released first Zuid Holland UK COVID variant sequence, Netherlands/ZH-EMC-1148/2020, (at GISAID collected Dec 19).

South Australia Pathology has released a UK variant sequence at GISAID. The isolate,hCoV-19/Australia/SAP593/2020, follows the release of 2 similar sequences from Sidney. The new location for the latest isolation increases the number of locations in the area to three. In addition to the isolates in Sidney and South Australia, a sequence from Singapore has also been released (although the Singapore sequence did not have the 3 amino acid deletion in the NSP 6 protein, which is present in both sets of variants (UK and South Africa).

National Virus Reference Laboratory has released a UK variant sequence, Ireland/D-NVRL-20IRL09344/2020, (at GISAID collected Dec 18) from 31-40F)

CHU Tours has released the first UK variant sequence, France/CVL-SC719/2020, (at GISAID) from Tours, France collected on Dec 18 from 34M.

Israel Ministry of Health has released UK variant sequence, Israel/CVL-7075/2020, (at GISAID collected Dec 16)

Dutch COVID-19 response team released 2nd UK variant sequence, Netherlands/NH-RIVM-20432/2020, from Noord-Holland Netherlands (Dec 13 collection from 87 year old).

Hong Kong Department of Health released a second UK variant sequence (at GISAID), Hong Kong/CM20000461/2020, from Dec 13 collection from 17M.

PHE Covid Sequencing Team released sequence (at GISAID) of first UK COVID variant from Gibraltar, Gibraltar/205000662/2020 (Dec collection).

Lighthouse Lab in Alderley Park released the first South Africa COVID variant in England, England/ALDP-C497BF/2020, (at GISAID - Dec 12 collection)

New South Wales Health Pathology Randwick released 2nd UK COVID variant sequence, Australia/NSW3647/2020, (at GISAID) from 6M from Sydney, Australia.

Temporary Specimen Collection Centre in Hong Kong released first reported UK COVID variant sequence, hCoV-19/Hong Kong/CM20000424/2020, (at GISAID) from Dec 7, 2020 collection from 14M.

Dutch COVID-19 response team deposited (at GISAID) the first UK COVID variant sequence from Noor-Holland, Netherlands, hCoV-19/Netherlands/NH-RIVM-20227/2020 (Dec 5, 2020 collection).

New South Wales Health Pathology Randwick deposited (at GISAID) the first reported UK variant COVID sequence, hCoV-19/Australia/NSW3456/2020, (Nov 30, 2020 collection) from 12M.