Dr. Shay Fleishon from the Central Virology Laboratory at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer took to twitter and said that 85 sequences from eight countries have been uploaded so far on Nextstrain, an open-source platform of genomic data.
This included 69 from India: Delhi (1), Haryana (6), Himachal Pradesh (3), Jammu (1), Karnataka (10), Madhya Pradesh (5), Maharashtra (27), Telangana (2), Uttar Pradesh (1), and West Bengal (13).
Apart from India, this nee sub-strain has been identified in countries such as Japan (1), Germany (2), the UK (6), Canada (2), the US (2), Australia (1), and New Zealand (2), according to the Nextstrain data.
"No transmission could be tracked based on sequences outside India yet," Fleishon wrote on Twitter.