Table 2.
Currently designated Variants of concern, Variants of interest and Variants under Monitoring by World Health Organization (as on 4th Oct. 2021).
| Designation | WHO label |
Pango
lineage |
GISAID clade |
Nextstrain
clade |
Country of origin | Date of designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variants of concern (VOC) | Alpha | B.1.1.7 | GRY | 20I (V1) | United Kingdom | 18th Dec. 2020 |
| Beta | B.1.351 | GH/501Y.V2 | 20H (V2) | South Africa | 18th Dec. 2020 | |
| Gamma | P.1 | GR/501Y.V3 | 20J (V3) | Brazil |
11th Jan. 2021 | |
| Delta | B.1.617.2 | G/478K.V1 | 21A | India | 11th May 2021 | |
| Variants of Interest | Lambda | C.37 | GR/452Q.V1 | 21G | Peru | 14th Jun. 2021 |
| Mu | B.1.621 | GH | 21H | Colombia | 30th Aug. 2021 | |
| Variants Under Monitoring | R.1 | GR | – | Multiple countries |
7th Apr. 2021 | |
| B.1.466.2 | GH | – | Indonesia |
28th Apr. 2021 | ||
| B.1.1.318 | GR | – | Multiple countries |
02th Jun. 2021 | ||
| B.1.1.519 | GR | 20B/S.732A | Multiple countries |
02th Jun. 2021 | ||
| C.36.3 | GR | – | Multiple countries |
16th Jun. 2021 | ||
| B.1.214.2 | G | – | Multiple countries | 30th Jun. 2021 | ||
| Epsilon | B.1.427 B.1.429 |
GH/452R.V1 | 21C | United States of America | 6th Jul. 2021 |
|
| B.1.1.523 | GR | – | Multiple countries | 14th Jul. 2021 | ||
| B.1.619 | G | 20A/S.126A | Multiple countries | 14th Jul. 2021 | ||
| B.1.620 | G | – | Multiple countries | 14th Jul. 2021 | ||
| C.1.2 | GR | – | South Africa | 1st Sep. 2021 | ||
| Kappa | B.1.617.1 | G/452R.V3 | 21B | India | 20th Sep. 2021 | |
| Lota | B.1.526 | GH/253G.V1 | 21F | United States of America | 20th Sep. 2021 | |
| Eta | B.1.525 | G/484K.V3 | 21D | Multiple countries |
20th Sep. 2021 |