100,000 Coronavirus Genomes Reveal COVID’s Evolution in Africa

October 5, 2022

(Nature) – New SARS-CoV-2 variants arise and spread with great stealth, but that hasn’t stopped Africa’s genomic sleuths from spotting a host of these threats — and alerting the rest of the world. Now an analysis details how the rapid growth in Africa’s sequencing capacity has aided global SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. It also reveals that most variants were imported into Africa more often than they were exported from the continent. (Read More)