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

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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
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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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author Bai, Yuan
Du, Zhanwei
Xu, Mingda
Wang, Lin
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-86698632021-12-15 International risk of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant importations originating in South Africa Bai, Yuan Du, Zhanwei Xu, Mingda Wang, Lin Wu, Peng Lau, Eric H. Y. Cowling, Benjamin J. Meyers, Lauren Ancel medRxiv Article 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. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2021-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8669863/ /pubmed/34909796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.07.21267410 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
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