Molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 genome sentinel surveillance in commercial COVID-19 testing sites targeting asymptomatic individuals during Japan’s seventh epidemic wave

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Eight peaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak occurred in Japan, each associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern. The National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NESID) analyzed viral genome sequences from symptomatic patients and submitted the results to GISAID. Meanwhile, commercial testing services occasionally sequence...

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