In the UK and Finland, advance notification of cVDPV2 isolated from environmental samples was received. In the UK, cVDPV2 was isolated from an environmental sample collected on 6 November from Leeds and from environmental samples collected from London and East Worthing in November. In Finland, cVDPV2 was isolated from an environmental sample collected on 19 November from Tampere. In Germany, following confirmation last week of cVDPV2, six additional cVDPV2 isolates were confirmed from environmental samples, all collected in November, from Bonn, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne and Mainz. All detected isolates are linked to the strain originating in Zamfara, Nigeria.