48 SARS-CoV-2 More Variants of Concern and updates from Africa

We discuss the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 genomics over the last 2 weeks with Peter van Heusden, covering the growing list of Variants of Concern and the latest developments in Africa. Papers & resources mentioned: American birds (677) - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.12.21251658v2 https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation PHE thresholds for different variants: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-cases-data A.23.1 in Uganda - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.08.21251393v1 B.1.525 - https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/4 Zambia sequences - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7008e2.htm?s_cid=mm7008e2_w