Inbal Gazy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the neutralization of a non-VOC variant with the 501Y.V2 VOC (also known as B.351) using plasma collected from adults who were hospitalized with COVID-19 during the two waves of infection in South Africa.

TL;DR: The first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in South Africa was identified on 5 March 2020, and by 26 March the country was in full lockdown (Oxford stringency index of 90)1..

TL;DR: In this article, a live virus neutralization assay (LVNA) was used to compare neutralization of a first wave virus (B.1.351) with mutations in the spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) and N-terminal domain (NTD).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the genomic epidemiology using a dataset of 8746 genomes from 33 African countries and two overseas territories and show that the epidemics in most countries were initiated by importations predominantly from Europe, which diminished following the early introduction of international travel restrictions.

TL;DR: The obstacles encountered in order to genotype SARS-CoV-2 in near-real time during an urgent outbreak investigation were outlined and three different library preparation methods for Illumina sequencing were set up, which enabled the outbreak investigation to be completed in just a few weeks.