The goals of this study are (i) the elucidation of infections chains and (ii) the surveillance of variants of the SARS Coronavirus 2 in the Duesseldorf metropolitan area.
Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes has emerged as the key technology for analyzing spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages, including detection of variants of concern (VOC) that may cause more rapid spread, more
WGS of SARS-CoV2 sequencing was done as part of COVID surveillance on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland using a nested primer approach described in Roder et al 2021 (DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.05.442873v
