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[2021-11-26 09:32:48] [Robert Garry] I'm already getting over-whelmed with media requests - on the big UK radio stations wanted to interview at 11pm - I didn't... [2021-11-26 09:37:09] [Andrew Rambaut] What we are waiting for now is genomes from other parts of RSA. The initial genomes were extremely targeted to a university outbreak. Interestingly they had already noticed the rise in SGTF in multiple provinces before sequencing Nu. There were not doing much genome sequencing so it is a bit of a rush to get samples from across the country. So if the new ones lie outside Jo'burg then that gives an older root and more likely a non-RSA origin. If they are all within Jo'burg clade then point source (possibly across the border in Botswana or somewhere). [2021-11-26 09:42:09] [Andrew Rambaut] New Botswana ones are quite interspersed and possibly basal: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-11-26 10:05:29] [Robert Garry] "The infections were detected in a man who had returned to Hong Kong from South Africa this month, and later in another man staying across the hall in the same quarantine hotel. (Hong Kong requires almost all overseas arrivals to quarantine in hotels for two to three weeks.) *The virus's genetic sequence was identical in both men*, suggesting airborne transmission, according to the city's Center for Health Protection. Both men were vaccinated." Sequences don't look identical on the tree... [2021-11-26 10:06:11] [Andrew Rambaut] Omicron it is!! https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1464293032115777536 [2021-11-26 10:09:20] [Kristian Andersen] Damn - they might not want you anywhere near their origin investigations, but at least they have you signed up as Naming Master! :wink: [2021-11-26 10:10:55] [Kristian Andersen] > they had already noticed the rise in SGTF in multiple provinces before sequencing Nu That bit has me most concerned - although, importantly, we saw exactly the same for beta and that didn't do much outside RSA (for multiple different reasons, mostly just more fit variants). [2021-11-26 10:16:30] [Kristian Andersen] A local company here in San Diego is either going to be extremely pleased or 'effing pissed about this announcement. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-11-26 at 10.15.52.png] [2021-11-26 10:17:06] [Andrew Rambaut] Delta Airlines will be happy if we move on [2021-11-26 10:18:06] [Andrew Rambaut] And I can't imagine why they skipped xi [2021-11-26 13:43:50] [Eddie Holmes]