{"id":4321,"date":"2021-02-17T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2021-02-22T22:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T06:27:17","slug":"detection-of-b-1-351-sars-cov-2-variant-strain-zambia-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/17\/detection-of-b-1-351-sars-cov-2-variant-strain-zambia-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Detection of B.1.351 SARS-CoV-2 Variant Strain \u2014 Zambia, December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SARS-CoV-2 variant strain B.1.351 (first described in South Africa) was detected in Zambia in specimens collected from December 16\u201323, 2020. Among 23 specimens collected during this time, 22 (96%) were the B.1.351 variant, and among those 21 (95%) contained all nine B.1.351 lineage-defining mutations. Specimens with the B.1.351 variant were obtained from people across four provinces. Five (23%) specimens were obtained from people in two different clusters, with no known epidemiologic links among other cases. After detecting this variant, the average number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in Zambia increased 16-fold, from 44 cases during December 1\u201310 2020 increasing to 700 cases during January 1\u201310, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mwenda et al. (Feb 17, 2021). Detection of B.1.351 SARS-CoV-2 Variant Strain \u2014 Zambia, December 2020. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7008e2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7008e2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SARS-CoV-2 variant strain B.1.351 (first described in South Africa) was detected in Zambia in specimens collected from December 16\u201323, 2020. Among 23 specimens collected during this time, 22 (96%) were the B.1.351 variant, and among those 21 (95%) contained all nine B.1.351 lineage-defining mutations. Specimens with the B.1.351 variant were obtained from people across&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/17\/detection-of-b-1-351-sars-cov-2-variant-strain-zambia-december-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,159],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-geographic-spread","tag-variants","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}