Africa needs more genome sequencing to tackle new variants of SARS-CoV-2

Akaninyene Otu^#^{1

2}, Emmanuel Agogo³, Bassey Ebenso^#⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infection and Travel Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK. akanotu@yahoo.com.
² College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. akanotu@yahoo.com.
³ Resolve to Save Lives, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁴ Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

^# Contributed equally.

Akaninyene Otu et al. Nat Med. 2021 May.

. 2021 May;27(5):744-745.

doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01327-4.

Akaninyene Otu^#^{1

2}, Emmanuel Agogo³, Bassey Ebenso^#⁴

¹ Department of Infection and Travel Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK. akanotu@yahoo.com.
² College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. akanotu@yahoo.com.
³ Resolve to Save Lives, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁴ Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

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