The emergence and successful elimination of SARS-CoV-2 dominant strains with increasing epidemic potential in Taiwan’s 2021 outbreak

• Published in: Heliyon Vol. 9; no. 12; p. e22436
• Main Authors: Yang, Chin-Rur, Chang, Sui-Yuan, Gong, Yu-Nong, Huang, Chung-Guei, Tung, Tsung-Hua, Liu, Wei, Chan, Ta-Chien, Hung, Kuo-Sheng, Shang, Hung-Sheng, Tsai, Jih-Jin, Kao, Chuan-Liang, Wu, Hui-Lin, Daisy Liu, Li-Yu, Lin, Wan-Yu, Fan, Yi-Chin, King, Chwan-Chuen, Ku, Chia-Chi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: Bioinformatics; Community outbreak; computer software; COVID-19 infection; decline; Epicenter; issues and policy; public health; Reproduction number; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Spatio-temporal analysis; Taiwan; Transmission; vaccination; Viral variants; viruses; Whole-genome sequencing; Taiwan; SARS-CoV-2; Viral variants; Whole-genome sequencing; Epicenter; Transmission; Taiwan; Spatio-temporal analysis; Community outbreak; Reproduction number; Bioinformatics

Taiwan’s experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003 guided its development of strategies to defend against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, which enabled the successful control of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases from 2020 through March 2021. However, in late-April...