1. Department of Virology, National Health Laboratory Service Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital Johannesburg South Africa
2. School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa
3. KwaZulu‐Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine University of KwaZulu‐Natal Durban South Africa
4. Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School of Data Science and Computational Thinking Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch South Africa
5. Sequencing Core Facility National Institute for Communicable Diseases Johannesburg South Africa
6. Department of Medical Biosciences, Molecular Biology and Virology Research Laboratory University of the Western Cape Bellville South Africa