Rational Primer and Probe Construction in PCR-Based Assays for the Efficient Diagnosis of Drifting Variants of SARS-CoV-2

Table 1

Sample size and distribution of SARS-CoV-2 genomes on the basis of region for this study.

S. no.	Sample distributed by region	Sample size (n)	Sample distribution in percentage (%)
1	Africa	514	1.05
2	Asia	3340	6.80
3	Europe	31818	65.40
4	North America	10250	21
5	Oceania	2127	4.30
6	South America	575	1.10
7	Not defined	11	0.02
Total sample size (N)		48635	100