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Editorial
. 2021 May;6(5):e006012.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006012.

COVID-19 rise in Bangladesh correlates with increasing detection of B.1.351 variant

Senjuti Saha  1 , Arif M Tanmoy  2 , Yogesh Hooda  2   3 , Afroza Akter Tanni  2 , Sharmistha Goswami  2 , Syed Muktadir Al Sium  2 , Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib  2 , Roly Malaker  2 , Shuborno Islam  2 , Hafizur Rahman  2 , Ataul Mustufa Anik  2 , Nikkon Sarker  2 , Mohammad Shahidul Islam  2 , Kinkar Ghosh  4 , Probir Kumar Sarkar  5 , Mohammed Rizwanul Ahsan Bipul  5 , Syed Shafi Ahmed  5 , Mohammod Shahidullah  6 , Samir K Saha  2   7
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Editorial

COVID-19 rise in Bangladesh correlates with increasing detection of B.1.351 variant

Senjuti Saha et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS; vaccines.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh and trends in circulating lineages of SARS-CoV-2. (A) The 7-day average of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. (B) The reproductive rate (R0). Data for (A) and (B) were obtained from Our World in Data (https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus). (C) The Nextstrain clades (Pangolin lineage) of the 204 SARS-CoV-2 sequenced at the Child Health Research Foundation.
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