Four COVID-19 Cases of New Variant B.1.351 First Emerging in South Africa in Chinese Passengers on Same Flight - Shenzhen, China, January 2021

Cong Cheng; Lei Wang; Ziquan Lyu; Bo Peng; Yinghui Li; Dongfeng Kong; Le Zuo; Xiaomin Zhang; Chao Yang; Weiwen Liu; Jia Wan; Yijun Tang; Junjia He; Ying Wen; Shule Xu; Weihua Wu; Ying Chen; Guangnan Liu; Junjie Xia; Xuan Zou; Renli Zhang; Qinghua Hu; Shujiang Mei; Tiejian Feng

doi:10.46234/ccdcw2021.049

Four COVID-19 Cases of New Variant B.1.351 First Emerging in South Africa in Chinese Passengers on Same Flight - Shenzhen, China, January 2021

China CDC Wkly. 2021 Feb 19;3(8):175-177. doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2021.049.

Authors

Cong Cheng¹, Lei Wang², Ziquan Lyu³, Bo Peng⁴, Yinghui Li², Dongfeng Kong¹, Le Zuo¹, Xiaomin Zhang⁴, Chao Yang², Weiwen Liu³, Jia Wan¹, Yijun Tang⁴, Junjia He³, Ying Wen¹, Shule Xu¹, Weihua Wu⁴, Ying Chen³, Guangnan Liu³, Junjie Xia⁵, Xuan Zou⁵, Renli Zhang⁴, Qinghua Hu², Shujiang Mei¹, Tiejian Feng⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
² Microbiology Laboratory, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
⁴ Institute of pathogenic biology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
⁵ Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

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Grants and funding

Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (NO.2020-PT330-006), Shenzhen Key Medical Discipline Construction Fund (NO. SZXK064), and Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (NO. SZSM201811071) and the China National Science and Technology Major Projects Foundation (NO.2017ZX10303406).