An early warning system for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

Affiliations

• ¹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ² National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ³ School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁴ CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India.
• ⁵ Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁶ Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Research Centre, Rotterdam/Delft, the Netherlands.
• ⁷ Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar of Cornell University, Doha, Qatar.
• ⁸ Epidemiology and Health Policy Centre, Universidad del Desarollo, Santiago, Chile.
• ⁹ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁰ World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹¹ Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹² Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹³ UK Health Security Agency, London, UK.
• ¹⁴ National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹⁵ World Organisation for Animal Health, Paris, France.
• ¹⁶ Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ¹⁷ Charité Medical Center, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁸ University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
• ¹⁹ Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
• ²⁰ Institut de Santé et Développement, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
• ²¹ Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana.
• ²² Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²³ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ²⁴ World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
• ²⁵ World Health Organization Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, The Philippines.
• ²⁶ World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.
• ²⁷ United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ²⁸ World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas, Washington, DC, USA.
• ²⁹ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, The People's Republic of China.
• ³⁰ World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ³¹ American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• ³² National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT, USA.
• ³³ Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
• ³⁴ Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, The People's Republic of China.
• ³⁵ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ³⁶ Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China.
• ³⁷ Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ³⁸ Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ³⁹ Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴⁰ Institute of Virology and Immunology, Mittelhäusern and Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴¹ Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
• ⁴² World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. vankerkhovem@who.int.
• ⁴³ Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.