{"id":9682,"date":"2021-05-10T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:30:44","slug":"travel-driven-emergence-and-spread-of-sars-cov-2-lineage-b-1-620-with-multiple-voc-like-mutations-and-deletions-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/10\/travel-driven-emergence-and-spread-of-sars-cov-2-lineage-b-1-620-with-multiple-voc-like-mutations-and-deletions-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel-Driven Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.620 with Multiple VOC-like Mutations and Deletions in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> There is evidence from sequencing data from GISAID that the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.620 variant, which shares mutations and deletions common to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">variants of concern (VOCs), including E484K, S477N, HV69\u0394, Y144\u0394, and LLA241\/243\u0394, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> likely <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">contributing to ongoing transmission <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">locally in Lithuania, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and the Central African Republic.\u00a0The authors found evidence suggesting that some cases identified in Europe appeared to be linked with travel to Cameroon.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dudas et al.\u00a0(May 8, 2021). Travel-Driven Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage B.1.620 with Multiple VOC-like Mutations and Deletions in Europe. Pre-print downloaded May 10 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.04.21256637\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.04.21256637<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] There is evidence from sequencing data from GISAID that the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.620 variant, which shares mutations and deletions common to variants of concern (VOCs), including E484K, S477N, HV69\u0394, Y144\u0394, and LLA241\/243\u0394, is likely contributing to ongoing transmission locally in Lithuania, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and the Central African Republic.\u00a0The authors found evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/10\/travel-driven-emergence-and-spread-of-sars-cov-2-lineage-b-1-620-with-multiple-voc-like-mutations-and-deletions-in-europe\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-geographic-spread","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9683,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}