Daily SARS-CoV-2 case numbers by specimen date for the United Kingdom from 2020 - 2022 retrieved from the UK Health Security Agency's data dashboard. downloaded data describing the daily number of variants detected by collection date. The data classified all sequences based on ‘major lineage calls’. We considered groupings of the variants based on their major lineage calls or other, consisting of all lineages with a designation not consistent with any of the major lineage calls.
Format
sarscov2
A data frame with 830 rows and 6 columns:
- date
Date, between 23 September 2020 and 31 December 2022
- cases
Numeric, daily number of cases
- alpha
Integer, daily number of cases of B.1.1.7 (Alpha variant)
- delta
Integer, daily number of cases of B.1.617.2 (Delta variant)
- omicron
Integer, daily number of cases of BA.1, BA.2, BA.2.75, BA.4, BA.5, BQ.1 (Omicron variants)
- other
Integer, daily number of cases of B.1.177, XBB (a recombinant of omicron sub-variants), and all other lineages with a designation not consistent with any of the major lineage calls