International risk of the new variant COVID-19 importations originating in the United Kingdom

A fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 has raised international alarm. We estimate that, in all 15 countries analyzed, there is at least a 50% chance the variant was imported by travelers from the United Kingdom by December 7th.

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Autores principales: Du, Zhanwei, Wang, Lin, Yang, Bingyi, Ali, Sheikh Taslim, Tsang, Tim K., Shan, Songwei, Wu, Peng, Lau, Eric H. Y., Cowling, Benjamin J., Meyers, Lauren Ancel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7814837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33469591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.09.21249384
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author Du, Zhanwei
Wang, Lin
Yang, Bingyi
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Shan, Songwei
Wu, Peng
Lau, Eric H. Y.
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Meyers, Lauren Ancel
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spelling pubmed-78148372021-01-20 International risk of the new variant COVID-19 importations originating in the United Kingdom Du, Zhanwei Wang, Lin Yang, Bingyi Ali, Sheikh Taslim Tsang, Tim K. Shan, Songwei Wu, Peng Lau, Eric H. Y. Cowling, Benjamin J. Meyers, Lauren Ancel medRxiv Article A fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 has raised international alarm. We estimate that, in all 15 countries analyzed, there is at least a 50% chance the variant was imported by travelers from the United Kingdom by December 7th. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7814837/ /pubmed/33469591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.09.21249384 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
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Meyers, Lauren Ancel
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