TY - JOUR T1 - Isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 VOC, 20H/501Y.V2, from UAE travelers JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2021.05.14.443968 SP - 2021.05.14.443968 AU - Pragya D. Yadav AU - Prasad Sarkale AU - Alpana Razdan AU - Nivedita Gupta AU - Dimpal A. Nyayanit AU - Rima R. Sahay AU - Varsha Potdar AU - Deepak Y. Patil AU - Shreekant Baradkar AU - Abhinendra Kumar AU - Neeraj Aggarwal AU - Anita M. Shete AU - Harmanmeet Kaur Y1 - 2021/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/05/14/2021.05.14.443968.abstract N2 - Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants have been emerged and created serious public health in the affected countries. The variant of Concern associated with high transmissibility, disease severity and escape mutations is threat to vaccination program across the globe. Travel has been important factor in spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants worldwide. India has also witnessed the dreadful effect of these SARS-CoV-2 variants. Here, we report the Isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 VOC, 20H/501Y.V2 (B.1.351), from UAE travelers to India. The virus isolate would be useful to determine the efficacy of the currently available vaccines in India.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -