Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022

The emergence of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant in November 2020 raised concerns of increased transmissibility and severity. We describe the epidemiology of 949 confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta variant cases in England, identified between December 2020 and June 2022. Most cases were detected in the...

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Autores principales: Sinnathamby, Mary A., Zaidi, Asad, Twohig, Katherine A., Aliabadi, Shirin, Aziz, Nurin Abdul, Groves, Natalie, Gallagher, Eileen, Thelwall, Simon, Dabrera, Gavin
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Short Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10651643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38019701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.13204
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author Sinnathamby, Mary A.
Zaidi, Asad
Twohig, Katherine A.
Aliabadi, Shirin
Aziz, Nurin Abdul
Groves, Natalie
Gallagher, Eileen
Thelwall, Simon
Dabrera, Gavin
author_facet Sinnathamby, Mary A.
Zaidi, Asad
Twohig, Katherine A.
Aliabadi, Shirin
Aziz, Nurin Abdul
Groves, Natalie
Gallagher, Eileen
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description The emergence of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant in November 2020 raised concerns of increased transmissibility and severity. We describe the epidemiology of 949 confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta variant cases in England, identified between December 2020 and June 2022. Most cases were detected in the first 3 months. A total of 10 deaths (1.1%; 10/949) were identified among all cases and of those with travel information, 38 (4.9%; 38/781) cases with hospital admissions within 14 days of a positive test being detected. 52.9% (413/781) cases were imported. This study reinforces the importance of monitoring of travel‐associated cases to inform public health response and reduce transmissibility of new variants.
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spelling pubmed-106516432023-11-15 Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022 Sinnathamby, Mary A. Zaidi, Asad Twohig, Katherine A. Aliabadi, Shirin Aziz, Nurin Abdul Groves, Natalie Gallagher, Eileen Thelwall, Simon Dabrera, Gavin Influenza Other Respir Viruses Short Communications The emergence of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant in November 2020 raised concerns of increased transmissibility and severity. We describe the epidemiology of 949 confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta variant cases in England, identified between December 2020 and June 2022. Most cases were detected in the first 3 months. A total of 10 deaths (1.1%; 10/949) were identified among all cases and of those with travel information, 38 (4.9%; 38/781) cases with hospital admissions within 14 days of a positive test being detected. 52.9% (413/781) cases were imported. This study reinforces the importance of monitoring of travel‐associated cases to inform public health response and reduce transmissibility of new variants. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10651643/ /pubmed/38019701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.13204 Text en © 2023 Crown copyright. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This article is published with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the King's Printer for Scotland. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sinnathamby, Mary A.
Zaidi, Asad
Twohig, Katherine A.
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Groves, Natalie
Gallagher, Eileen
Thelwall, Simon
Dabrera, Gavin
Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022
title Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022
title_full Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022
title_fullStr Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022
title_full_unstemmed Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022
title_short Descriptive epidemiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases in England, December 2020 to June 2022
title_sort descriptive epidemiology of sars‐cov‐2 beta (b.1.351) variant cases in england, december 2020 to june 2022
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10651643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38019701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.13204
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