Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report

• Main Authors: Giandhari, Jennifer, Pillay, Sureshnee, Wilkinson, Eduan, Tegally, Houriiyah, Sinayskiy, Ilya, Schuld, Maria, Lourenço, José, Chimukangara, Benjamin, Lessells, Richard John, Moosa, Yunus, Gazy, Inbal, Fish, Maryam, Singh, Lavanya, Khanyile, Khulekani Sedwell, Fonseca, Vagner, Giovanetti, Marta, Alcantara, Luiz Carlos Junior, Petruccione, Francesco, de Oliveira, Tulio
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2020
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Cape Home
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273273/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32511505; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.29.20116376

Background: The emergence of a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in December 2019, progressed to become a world pandemic in a few months and reached South Africa at the beginning of March. To investigate introduction and understand the early transmission dynamics of the virus, we formed the South Afric...