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100,000 coronavirus genomes reveal COVID’s evolution in Africa

Massive SARS-CoV-2 sequencing project in Africa brings global benefits.
  1. Diana Kwon

    1. Diana Kwon is a freelance science journalist based in Berlin.

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New SARS-CoV-2 variants arise and spread with great stealth, but that hasn’t stopped Africa’s genomic sleuths from spotting a host of these threats — and alerting the rest of the world. Now an analysis details how the rapid growth in Africa’s sequencing capacity has aided global SARS-CoV-2 surveillance1. It also reveals that most variants were imported into Africa more often than they were exported from the continent.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03070-3

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  • Correction 05 October 2022: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong affiliation for Jeremy Kamil. He is at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport.

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