John T. McCrone

TL;DR: The SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.7, now designated Variant of Concern 202012/01 (VOC) by Public Health England, originated in the UK in late Summer to early Autumn 2020 as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Investigation of the hypothesis for positive selection of Spike 614G at the level of an individual country, the United Kingdom, using more than 25,000 whole genome SARS-CoV-2 sequences collected by COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium finds that Spike 6 14G clusters are introduced in the UK later on average than 614D clusters and grow to larger size after adjusting for time of introduction.

TL;DR: The United Kingdom's COVID-19 epidemic during early 2020 was one of world's largest and was unusually well represented by virus genomic sampling as mentioned in this paper, which determined the fine-scale genetic lineage structure of this epidemic through analysis of 50,887 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genomes, including 26,181 from the UK sampled throughout the country's first wave of infection.

TL;DR: Combined epidemiological and phylogenetic analyses indicate multiple independent introductions to Guangdong, although phylogenetic clustering is uncertain because of low virus genetic variation early in the pandemic.

TL;DR: A rational and dynamic virus nomenclature that uses a phylogenetic framework to identify those lineages that contribute most to active spread of SARS-CoV-2 is presented in this paper.