Table 15.

Number of unique ORF8 protein mutations possessed in each geo-location.

Continent	Oceania	Europe	Asia	Asia	N-America	S-America
Geo-location	Australia	Austria	Bahrain	Bangladesh	California	Chile
# of mutations in ORF8 (M8)	33	2	14	23	117	4
# of unique ORF8 seqs. (U8)	54	3	17	19	359	5
Avg. # of mutations per unit unique seqs. (M8/U8)	0.61	0.67	0.82	1.21	0.33	0.80

Continent	Africa	N-America	Europe	Africa	Europe	Asia
Geo-location	Egypt	Florida	France	Ghana	Greece	Hong Kong
# of mutations in ORF8 (M8)	26	114	2	43	3	9
# of unique ORF8 seqs. (U8)	34	231	3	12	4	10
Avg. # of mutations per unit unique seqs. (M8/U8)	0.76	0.49	0.67	3.58	0.75	0.90

Continent	Asia	N-America	N-America	N-America	Asia	N-America
Geo-location	India	Massachusetts	Michigan	Minnesota	Pakistan	Pennsylvania
# of mutations in ORF8 (M8)	30	89	69	65	9	69
# of unique ORF8 seqs. (U8)	27	137	77	118	10	135
Avg. # of mutations per unit unique seqs. (M8/U8)	1.11	0.65	0.90	0.55	0.90	0.51

Continent	S-America	Europe	Europe	Europe	N-America	Africa
Geo-location	Peru	Poland	Serbia	Spain	Texas	Tunisia
# of mutations in ORF8 (M8)	7	5	5	3	78	6
# of unique ORF8 seqs. (U8)	8	6	6	3	154	7
Avg. # of mutations per unit unique seqs. (M8/U8)	0.88	0.83	0.83	1.00	0.51	0.86