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SUBMITTER: Campbell F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212592 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campbell Finlay F Archer Brett B Laurenson-Schafer Henry H Jinnai Yuka Y Konings Franck F Batra Neale N Pavlin Boris B Vandemaele Katelijn K Van Kerkhove Maria D MD Jombart Thibaut T Morgan Oliver O le Polain de Waroux Olivier O
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20210601 24
We present a global analysis of the spread of recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants and estimate changes in effective reproduction numbers at country-specific level using sequence data from GISAID. Nearly all investigated countries demonstrated rapid replacement of previously circulating lineages by the World Health Organization-designated variants of concern, with estimated transmissibility increases of 29% (95% CI: 24-33), 25% (95% CI: 20-30), 38% (95% CI: 29-48) and 97% (95% CI: 76-117), respe ...[more]