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Author: Druce, Julian ; Siqueira, Marilda M ; Chen, Mark ; Chand, Meera ; Rambaut, Andrew ; Happi, Christian ; Effler, Paul ; Barclay, Wendy S ; Cunningham, Jane ; Abu-Raddad, Laith J ; Oh, Djin-Ye ; Haagmans, Bart L ; Tessema, Sofonias K ; Attar Cohen, Homa ; Bhiman, Jinal N ; de Oliveira, Tulio ; Ikejezie, Juniorcaius ; Otieno, James Richard ; von Eije, Karin ; Koopmans, Marion P G ; Grant, Rebecca ; Alm, Erik ; Drosten, Christian ; Kassamali, Zyleen Alnashir ; Volz, Erik ; Poon, Leo L M ; Mendez-Rico, Jairo ; Worp, Nathalie ; Saha, Senjuti ; Peiris, Malik ; Leung, Gabriel M ; Peng, Zhibin ; Cullinane, Ann ; Triki, Henda ; Thiel, Volker ; Naindoo, Dhamari ; Caly, Leon ; Oude Munnink, Bas B ; Katawera, Victoria ; Leo, Yee-Sin ; Subissi, Lorenzo ; Herring, Belinda L ; Peacock, Thomas P ; Faye, Adama ; Agrawal, Anurag ; Nahapetyan, Karen ; Munster, Vincent ; Kondor, Rebecca J ; Shen, Yinzhong ; Marklewitz, Marco ; Van Kerkhove, Maria D ; Hodcroft, Emma B ; Melhem, Nada M ; Barakat, Amal ; van der Werf, Sylvie ; Ghedin, Elodie ; El Masry, Ihab ; von Gottberg, Anne
The World Health Organization framework for tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants has been updated to reflect the continued evolution of the virus; this framework could be adapted for other emerging respiratory diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential.