Bai Yuan, Du Zhanwei, Xu Mingda, Wang Lin, Wu Peng, Lau Eric H Y, Cowling Benjamin J, Meyers Lauren Ancel
WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
medRxiv. 2021 Dec 7:2021.12.07.21267410. doi: 10.1101/2021.12.07.21267410.
Omicron, a fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern reported to the World Health Organization on November 24, 2021, has raised international alarm. We estimated there is at least 50% chance that Omicron had been introduced by travelers from South Africa into all of the 30 countries studied by November 27, 2021.
奥密克戎是一种传播迅速的严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)变异株,于2021年11月24日向世界卫生组织报告,引发了国际社会的警觉。我们估计,到2021年11月27日,来自南非的旅行者将奥密克戎引入所有30个被研究国家的可能性至少为50%。