HV.1 (EG.5.1.6.1) sublineage with S:G614S (25 seqs in 7 countries)

[HynnSpylor]

It was firstly spotted in #957

Defining mutations:
HV.1>C3817T>G25402A (S:G614S)
GISAID query: C3817T, G23402A
Earliest seq: 2023-09-04 (Spain- EPI_ISL_18334721)
Most recent seq: 2023-10-25 (England, UK- EPI_ISL_18457979)
Countries detected: Spain (7), UK (2), US (1), Portugal (1)
Usher Tree:

https://nextstrain.org/fetch/genome.ucsc.edu/trash/ct/subtreeAuspice1_genome_71c2_8ea6c0.json

S:D614G is the basic mutation of B.1 and nowadays all lineages are B.1*. Of course some seqs changed it, but this branch seems the largest branch of non-D614G recently which is circulating in last two months.

We can track it for a time.

Genomes:
EPI_ISL_18334721, EPI_ISL_18350550, EPI_ISL_18377319, EPI_ISL_18404988, EPI_ISL_18429299, EPI_ISL_18446862, EPI_ISL_18446894, EPI_ISL_18457979, EPI_ISL_18462707, EPI_ISL_18462712, EPI_ISL_18467618

[FedeGueli]

+1 Spain

[FedeGueli]

*1 Basque country -Spain

[FedeGueli]

17 now. Interestingly one sample from GBW is in a traveller from Japan.

[FedeGueli]

25 now. it seems slower than Parent HV.1

[FedeGueli]

One sample only from December . closing it