TY - JOUR AU - Du, Zhanwei AU - Wang, Lin AU - Yang, Bingyi AU - Ali, Sheikh Taslim AU - Tsang, Tim AU - Shan, Songwei AU - Wu, Peng AU - Lau, Eric H.Y. AU - Cowling, Benjamin AU - Meyers, Lauren Ancel T1 - Risk for International Importations of Variant SARS-CoV-2 Originating in the United Kingdom T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 5 SP - 1527 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A fast-spreading severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 variant identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 has raised international alarm. We analyzed data from 15 countries and estimated that the chance that this variant was imported into these countries by travelers from the United Kingdom by December 7 is >50%. KW - 2019 novel coronavirus disease KW - coronavirus disease KW - COVID-19 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - zoonoses KW - variant KW - epidemiology KW - importation KW - United Kingdom DO - 10.3201/eid2705.210050 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/5/21-0050_article ER - End of Reference