Table 1 Estimated changes in transmissibility and level of immune evasion, compared to the wild-type virus.

From: Development of a model-inference system for estimating epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Location

Variant

Changes in transmissibility (%)

Immune evasion (%)

United Kingdom

B.1.1.7

46.6 (32.3, 54.6)

3.9 (0, 36.2)

South Africa

B.1.351

32.4 (14.6, 48)

61.3 (42.6, 85.8)

Brazil

P.1

43.3 (30.3, 65.3)

52.5 (0, 75.8)

  1. Numbers show model-estimated mean (95% CI) from 100 model-inference runs totaling 50,000 model realizations.