Brief Report A Unique SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein P681H Variant Detected in Israel Neta S. Zuckerman 1,*, Shay Fleishon 1, Efrat Bucris 1, Dana Bar-Ilan 1 , Michal Linial 2 , Itay Bar-Or 1, Victoria Indenbaum 1, Merav Weil 1 , Yaniv Lustig 1, Ella Mendelson 1,3, Michal Mandelboim 1,3,†, Orna Mor 1,3,†, Neta Zuckerman 1 and on behalf of the Israel National Consortium for SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing ‡ 1 Central Virology Laboratory, Israel Ministry of Health, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer 52621, Israel; s.fl
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