Emergence of BS.1 and BS.1.1, highly mutated new SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ² Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ³ Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁶ Research Center for Biological Products in the Next Generation, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.