First UK COVID Variant Sequence Reported in Sydney Australia

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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.

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Australia/NSW3456/2020 has consensus sequence for UK COVID variant including 3 AA deletions in Spike protein and 3 AA deletions in NSP6 as well as Q27 stop codon on NS8.

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