First UK COVID Variant Sequence Reported in Hong Kong

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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.

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hCoV-19/Hong Kong/CM20000424/2020

matched UK variant with 3 AAs deleted in Spike protein, 3 AAs deleted in NSP6 and Q27 stop codon in NS8.

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