As the fifth variant of concern of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus, the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) has
quickly become the dominant type among the previous circulating variants worldwide. …

… To investigate whether repeated imports are sufficient to explain the rapid rise in frequency
… to different provinces of Spain and the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in those provinces. …

… Since its first detection in the UK in September 2020, a highly contagious version of the
coronavirus, the alpha or British variant aka B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 virus lineage, rapidly spread …

… -throughput sequencing technologies enabled rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 as the …
of SARS-CoV-2 variants by analyzing a subset (n = 97,437) of all publicly available SARS-CoV-…

… The rapid rise in COVID-19 cases before lockdown measures went into … coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
was. By January 2020, the increasing number of documented cases of SARS-CoV-…

Since the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, various genetic variants have been
described. The B.1.1.7 variant, which emerged in England during December 2020, is …

… In our laboratory, we have set out to follow the rapid rise of new mutations in the SARS‐CoV‐2
genome as COVID‐19 cases soared worldwide. We identified mutation hotspots in …

… Because of the sudden and rapid rise of the B.1.1.7 variant across the world, we … to rapid
onward transmission. Surveillance programs typically select a subset of RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 …

… Evidence about novel SARS-CoV-2 variants is rapidly being disseminated through genome
sequencing databases, governmental reports, preprints, scientific papers, and even social …

… These transmission dynamics, together with the relative antibody resistance of its E484K
sub-lineage, are likely to have contributed to the sharp rise and rapid spread of B.1.526. …