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Some one brought some back to the lab once in Oxford. Can't remember who it was. Absolutely foul. [2021-02-28 12:37:10] [Eddie Holmes] Nick Grassly I think [2021-02-28 12:37:17] [Andrew Rambaut] Seems likely [2021-02-28 12:39:10] [Andrew Rambaut] 6 cases of P.1 in UK, 3 in Aberdeen, 3 in SW England. One seems to have no epi information which is fun. How are they getting here? Can't be from Manaus surely. Must be widespread elsewhere. [2021-02-28 12:39:22] [Andrew Rambaut] Aberdeen? Bonkers [2021-02-28 12:39:41] [Andrew Rambaut] Perhaps the oil industry [2021-02-28 12:39:58] [Kristian Andersen] South America has a lot of people in it. [2021-02-28 12:40:10] [Kristian Andersen] (and NO genomic epi in most countries) [2021-02-28 12:40:34] [Andrew Rambaut] Yup. And shows that hotel quarantine is going well. [2021-02-28 12:41:31] [Eddie Holmes] Shame it's not Cowdenbeath as their football team is ironically called 'the blue Brazil' [2021-02-28 12:42:27] [Kristian Andersen] I'm interested to see what happens when P.1 / B.1.351 hit London and battle it out with B.1.1.7 - especially as vaccine coverage is going up. [2021-02-28 12:45:50] [Andrew Rambaut] I did check whether Aberdeen FC had any players from distant parts the last time they had an outbreak in August - the virus was very different from anything sampled at the time. Turned out to be from Kazakstan. [2021-02-28 12:47:26] [Eddie Holmes] Interesting. The UK hotel quarantine scheme is not long enough for a start. Needs to be at least 14 days. [2021-02-28 12:48:39] [Andrew Rambaut]