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Mutated strains of
the new coronavirus
mapped out
Mutated strains of the new coronavirus are spreading. A British and South African variant have been confirmed. View a world map of the spread of the infection.
Press for each country and region to see the number of infected people.
Tabulation method
The number of people infected by variants is based on data compiled by GISAID, a data-sharing platform for researchers. The number of countries/regions is based on cov-lineages.org, a research website of the University of Edinburgh as well as local media reports. Data reflects the total number of confirmed cases at the time it was acquired.
- Editors
- Masaru Sato, Atsushi Enomoto, Emiko Maeda, Takashi Igarashi, Yuta Tsunashima and Anna Nishino
- Art direction
- Akira Shimizu
- Design, Markup
- Shohei Yasuda
- Program
- Shohei Morikawa
- Number of people unknown
- Number of new infections
Total people infected
by mutated strain
Countries where variant
has been found
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