Notable Variants of SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

The current coronavirus pandemic has brought many deaths and affected economies around the world. The causative agent of COVID-19 is identified as SARS-CoV-2, a close relative to SARS-CoV that caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory distress in 2002-2003. During the course of the pandemic, there has been many reports of mutations that occurred to SARS-CoV-2 with several lineages that has been identified around the globe. In this paper, a summary of the notable variants of SARS-CoV-2 is discussed.