COVID-19 variants in Spain 2022

As of January 2022, the share of COVID-19 cases corresponding to the Omicron variant in Spain amounted to nearly 85 percent of the country's analyzed sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A month earlier this figure was equal to 54 percent of cases studied in the country. The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 - the virus causing COVID-19 - was designated as a variant of concern by the World Health Organization in November 2021. Since then, it has been rapidly spreading, causing an unprecedented increase in the amount of cases reported worldwide.

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Share of COVID-19 cases in Spain from December 2020 to January, 2022, by variant

Characteristic	Alpha	Beta	Gamma	Delta	Epsilon	Eta	Iota	Kappa	Lambda	Mu	Omicron	Others
January 2022	0%	0%	0%	15.01%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	84.99%	0%
December 2021	0%	0%	0%	45.64%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	54.19%	0.17%
November 2021	0%	0%	0%	99.77%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.23%	0%
October 2021	0.06%	0%	0%	99.74%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.13%	0%	0.07%
September 2021	0.18%	0%	0.27%	99.06%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.22%	0%	0.27%
August 2021	1.07%	0.43%	0.32%	97%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0.27%	0.24%	0%	0.67%
July 2021	8.72%	5.16%	0.6%	83.06%	0%	0.06%	0%	0%	0.64%	1.19%	0%	0.57%
June 2021	44.87%	3.97%	4.37%	38.07%	0%	0.37%	0.43%	0%	1%	3.37%	0%	3.55%
May 2021	85.91%	1.38%	4.31%	2.3%	0.03%	0.75%	0.87%	0.09%	0.33%	1.8%	0%	2.23%
April 2021	83.98%	1.69%	5.95%	0%	0%	1.69%	0.3%	0%	0.44%	0.27%	0%	5.68%
March 2021	77.09%	0.95%	1.32%	0%	0.04%	0.74%	0.08%	0%	0.04%	0.12%	0%	19.62%
February 2021	47.68%	0.76%	0.04%	0.04%	0%	0.15%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	51.33%
January 2021	31.87%	0.08%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	68.05%
December 2020	0.41%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	99.59%

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Release date

January 2022

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Spain

Survey time period

December 2020 to January 2022

Special properties

considers only analyzed sequences of SARS-CoV-2

Supplementary notes

According to the source: "The share may not reflect the complete breakdown of cases, since only a fraction of all cases are sequenced. Recently-discovered or actively-monitored variants may be overrepresented, as suspected cases of these variants are likely to be sequenced preferentially or faster than other cases."

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