Variant and mutation analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes isolated from the Kingdom of Bahrain Khalid M Bindayna, * Abdel Halim Deifalla, Hicham Ezzat Mohammed Mokbel College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain * Corresponding Address: Prof. Khalid Bindayna Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases College of Medicine and Medical Sciences Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain E-mail: bindayna@agu.edu.bh Ph: 39462466 Keywords: (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted January 26, 2021. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.25.428191 doi: bioRxiv preprint