Evolutionary Traits and Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in South America

Table 2

Distribution and frequencies of VOC and VOI in continental South America.

		VOC				VOI		N %
NextStrain⟶		20I	20H	20J	21A	21G	21H
GISAID⟶		GRY	GH	GR	G	GR	GH
Pango⟶		B.1.1.7	B.1.351	P.1	B.1.617	C.37	B.1.621
Place⟶		UK	SA	Br	In	Pe	Col
Country\WHO⟶	wt+	α	β	γ	δ	λ	μ
Argentina				26%	42%	32%		11.156	8.2%
Bolivia	24%			52%		24%		155	0.1%
Brazil				1%	99%			83.947	61.4%
Chile					94%		6%	16.345	12.0%
Colombia					92%		8%	8.667	6.3%
Ecuador					99%		1%	3.552	2.6%
Paraguay					100%			887	0.6%
Peru					100%			11.072	8.1%
Uruguay	100%							739	0.5%
Venezuela				100%				189	0.1%
South America				5%	89%	4%	2%	136.709	100%

Clades as headers. α = alpha, β = beta, γ = gamma, δ = delta, λ = Lambda, μ = Mu. wt+ = “wild-types”/original variants. N: number of sequences curated in GISAID (29 Nov 2021). Analysis on November 2021, UK: United Kingdom. SA: South Africa, Br: Brazil, In: India, US: United States, Pe: Peru, and Col: Colombia. At the time of manuscript writing, isolated cases of Omicron were reported in Brazil. Countries with data not available from the last three months. Our own source. Data from: Nextstrain.org.