I think this worth designation, as it is quite large with ~1000 seqs, and has a meaningful orf9b mutation. There're also some interesting Spike mutations inside its tree.
GISAID query: C28312T,C23635T,T10204C
No. of seqs: 909(Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, UK, Finland, India, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, China, Thailand, USA, Japan)
First: EPI_ISL_16572816, 2022-12-26, USA
Latest: EPI_ISL_17859895, 2023-6-20, USA
From https://github.com/sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-proposals/issues/319
XBB.1.5.17+orf9b:P10F(C28312T)
I think this worth designation, as it is quite large with ~1000 seqs, and has a meaningful orf9b mutation. There're also some interesting Spike mutations inside its tree.
GISAID query: C28312T,C23635T,T10204C
No. of seqs: 909(Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, UK, Finland, India, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, China, Thailand, USA, Japan)
First: EPI_ISL_16572816, 2022-12-26, USA Latest: EPI_ISL_17859895, 2023-6-20, USA
Most of the seqs also have Orf7b:F13L.
usher