Insights into SARS-CoV-2 in Angola during the COVID-19 peak: Molecular epidemiology and genome surveillance.
Ngiambudulu M FranciscoStephanie van WykMonika MoirJames Emmanuel SanCruz S SebastiãoHouriiyah TegallyJoicymara XavierAkhil MaharajZoraima NetoPedro AfonsoDomingos JandondoJoana PaixãoJulio MirandaKumbelembe DavidLuzia InglêsAmilton PereiraAgostinho PauloRaisa Rivas CarraleroHelga Reis FreitasFranco MufindaSilvia LutucutaMahan GhafariMarta GiovanettiJennifer GiandhariSureshnee PillayYeshnee NaidooLavanya SinghDerek TshiabuilaDarren Patrick MartinLucious ChabukaWonderful ChogaDorcas WanjohiSarah MwangiYusasha PillayYenew KebedeEdwin ShumbaPascale OndoaCheryl BaxterEduan WilkinsonSofonias Kifle TessemaAris KatzourakisRichard LessellsTulio de OliveiraJoana MoraisPublished in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2023)
A lack of a robust genome surveillance network and strong dependence on out-of-country sequencing limit real-time data generation to achieve timely disease outbreak responses, which remains of the utmost importance to mitigate future disease outbreaks in Angola.