First UK COVID Variant Sequence Reported in Kilkenny Ireland

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

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Ireland/KK-NVRL-20IRL10079/2020 

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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