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International risk of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant importations originating in South Africa

Omicron, a fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern reported to the World Health Organization on November 24, 2021, has raised international alarm. We estimated there is at least 50% chance that Omicron had been introduced by travelers from South Africa into all of the 30 countries studied by No...

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Autores principales: Bai, Yuan, Du, Zhanwei, Xu, Mingda, Wang, Lin, Wu, Peng, Lau, Eric H. Y., Cowling, Benjamin J., Meyers, Lauren Ancel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8669863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.07.21267410
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Sumario:Omicron, a fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern reported to the World Health Organization on November 24, 2021, has raised international alarm. We estimated there is at least 50% chance that Omicron had been introduced by travelers from South Africa into all of the 30 countries studied by November 27, 2021.