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A breakthrough in understanding New Zealand's new Covid-19 outbreak has only deepened the mystery over its origins.
New Zealand scientists have identified the "family" of its latest Covid-19 outbreak and have revealed that its name is "B.1.1.1." and can be tracked all the way back to Wuhan.
The lineage of the genome sequence of the original cluster – which began as four new cases on August 11 and has grown to 30 – is also linked to cases in Australia.
Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the samples had "strong links" to the genomes of coronavirus in United Kingdom and Australia.
(Also Peru, Uruguay, South Africa, Switzerland and Bangladesh.)
With so many different Clade systems in use it is difficult to know where these sequences fall on the phylogenic tree. This system seem to be one devised by Andrew Rambaut, Eddie Holmes et. al. based on GISAID data (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0770-5) but differs from the main clade system or the system defined by GISAID. GISAID's Nextstrain interactive phylographic analysis tool lets you label the tree with two different Clade systems (but not this one) and as it has no recent NZ samples it is not easy to work out how to translate between the various clade nomenclatures. https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-hcov-19-app/
Hopefully, at some point, everyone will agree on one of the competing systems and this translation problem will disappear.
