Relative Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) Compared with Delta Variant in South Africa

J Clin Med. 2021 Dec 23;11(1):30. doi: 10.3390/jcm11010030.

Hiroshi Nishiura¹, Kimihito Ito², Asami Anzai¹, Tetsuro Kobayashi¹, Chayada Piantham², Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales^{3

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¹ Kyoto University School of Public Health, Yoshidakonoecho, Sakyoku, Kyoto City 6068501, Japan.
² International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 0010020, Japan.
³ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira 660003, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁴ Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima 4861, Peru.
⁵ School of Medicine, Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (UNIFRANZ), Cochabamba 4780, Bolivia.

Abstract

The world identified the rapidly increasing incidence of the causative variant of SARS-CoV-2 Pangolin B [...].