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Cedric Chin

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We now live in the timeline where new COVID variants-of-concern are identified on Github, via Github issues:

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B.1.1 decendant associated with Southern Africa with high number of Spike mutations · Issue #343 ·...

New proposed lineage By Tom Peacock Description Sub-lineage of: B.1.1 Earliest Sequence: 2021-11-11 Latest Sequence: 2021-11-13 Countries circulating: Botswana (3 genomes), Hong Kong ex S. Africa (...

5:10 PM · Nov 25, 2021·Twitter Web App

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Nov 25, 2021

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Tom Peacock

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Nov 23, 2021

A final observation - this variant contains not one, but two furin cleavage site mutations - P681H (seen in Alpha, Mu, some Gamma, B.1.1.318) combined with N679K (seen in C.1.2 amongst others) - this is the first time I've seen two of these mutations in a single variant...

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