DY.1 with N1/N2 PCR-test escaping mutations(C28311T,A28330G,C29200T) together with lots of orf1ab mutations emerging in Shanghai (40 seqs) about pango-designation HOT 8 CLOSED

Are there any overviews of the targets for commonly used PCR tests?

The UCSC Genome Browser has a track with primers for several kits. Here is a session link showing the N gene's primers:

https://genome.ucsc.edu/s/AngieHinrichs/N_primers

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Still small and only Shanghai and DY.1 are unlikely to be able to compete with global variants like XBB.1.16

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6/63 in today's batch of Shanghai. The share is actually growing. Especially given XBB now being the dominate strain in Shanghai (35/63, 56%). However data is still too few.

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Are there any overviews of the targets for commonly used PCR tests?

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I remember China tests both N and orf1ab genes simultaneously to confirm a case; I might be wrong, though.

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I remember China tests both N and orf1ab genes simultaneously to confirm a case; I might be wrong, though.

This branch also has lots of orf1ab mutations, are any of them on potential escaping sites?

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3 more seqs from Shanghai.

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10/613 in today's Shanghai batch, still taking some share. Decaying but much more robust than other BA.5*.

Close this and migrant to sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-proposals#13, will reopen if spotted elsewhere.

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