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Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023

Dispatch

Emergence and Persistent Dominance of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.3.7 Variant, Taiwan

Pei-Lan Shao1, Hsiao-Chen Tu1, Yu-Nong Gong1, Hung-Yu Shu, Ralph Kirby, Li-Yun Hsu, Hui-Yee Yeo, Han-Yueh Kuo, Yi-Chia Huang, Yung-Feng Lin, Hui-Ying Weng, Yueh-Lin Wu, Chien-Chih Chen, Tzen-Wen Chen, Kuo-Ming Lee, Chung-Guei Huang, Shin-Ru Shih, Wei J. Chen, Chen-Chi Wu, Chong-Jen YuComments to Author , and Shih-Feng TsaiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (P.-L. Shao, L.-Y. Hsu, H.-Y. Yeo, H.-Y. Kuo, Y.-C. Huang, C.-C. Wu, C.-J. Yu); Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan (H.-C. Tu, Y.-F. Lin, S.-F. Tsai); Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan (Y.-N. Gong, K.-M. Lee, C.-G. Huang, S.-R. Shih); Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan (Y.-N. Gong, K.-M. Lee, C.-G. Huang S.-R. Shih); Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan (Y.-N. Gong, K.-M. Lee, C.-G. Huang, S.-R. Shih); Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan (H.-Y. Shu); National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan (R. Kirby, H.-Y. Weng, S.-F. Tsai); National Yang-Ming University, Taipei (H.-Y. Weng); TMU Research Center of Urology and Kidney, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan (Y.-L. Wu); Wei-Gong Memorial Hospital, Miaoli, Taiwan (Y.-L. Wu, C.-C. Chen, T.-W. Chen,); Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli (W.-J. Chen); Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Public Health, Taipei (W.-J. Chen); National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei (C.-C. Wu)

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Table 2

Submitted sequences of SARS-CoV-2 BA2.3.7 from different countries for inclusion in a study of the Omicron BA.2.3.7 variant in community outbreaks, Taiwan

Country
 No. sequences
Taiwan 51*
Japan 44
United States 37
Indonesia 27
Hong Kong 22
Australia 7
Denmark 6
Canada 5
Singapore 4
South Korea 4
Philippines 3
Thailand 3
France 3
Cambodia 2
Austria 2
Sweden 2
Germany 2
Spain 1
Vietnam 1
Slovenia 1
New Zealand
 1
Total 228

*Number does not include the contributions from this study.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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