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This study aimed to detect various SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The study attempted to sequence the complete S-gene of SARS-CoV-2 of 104 clinical samples using Sanger\u2019s method to analyze and compare the mutations with the global prevalence. The method standardized in this study was able to amplify the complete length of the S-gene (3822 bp). The resulting nucleotide and amino acid mutations were analyzed and compared with the local and global SARS-CoV-2 databases using Nextclade and GISAID tools. The Delta variant was the most common variant reported in the present study, followed by the Omicron variant. A variant name was not assigned to thirteen samples using the Nextclade tool. There were sixty-nine types of amino acid substitutions reported (excluding private mutations) throughout the spike gene. The T95I mutation was observed predominantly in Delta variants (15\/38), followed by Kappa (3\/8) and Omicron (1\/31). 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