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Date: 2021-04-26 01:40
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut

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Weirdly B.1.617.2 is coming up a lot in recent travel related international cases (with connection to India) but very little in Indian GISAID genomes so likely somewhere missing from surveillance.

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2021-04-26 00:32 Edward C. Holmes open

What's the feeling about B.1.617: is it genuinely increasing transmissibility or is it just riding the wave of the massive number of cases in India?
2021-04-26 00:37 Andrew Rambaut open

B.1.617 is split into B.1.617.1 (with E484Q) and B.1.617.2 (without) and both seem to be coming up along with a lotof other stuff. But there are no sequences since the start of April and the sequencing is quite geographicallyhetrogenous. My guess is that most of it is B.1.1.7.
2021-04-26 00:38 Andrew Rambaut open

It seems there are a lot of sequences that are not being put on GISAID: https://science.thewire.in/health/variant-first-identified-in-uk-is-behind-delhis-covid-19-surge-ncdc-chief/
2021-04-26 00:41 Edward C. Holmes open

That's really interesting.
2021-04-26 01:40 Andrew Rambaut

Weirdly B.1.617.2 is coming up a lot in recent travel related international cases (with connection to India) but very little in Indian GISAID genomes so likely somewhere missing from surveillance.
2021-04-26 02:22 Edward C. Holmes open

Let's hope they can get their sequencing together. Indian scientists are submitting a ton of papers to bioRxiv.

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