LONDON (Reuters) – The UK Well being Safety Company on Friday mentioned it had designated a sub-lineage of the dominant and extremely transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant as a variant below investigation.
BA.2, which doesn’t have the precise mutation seen with Omicron that can be utilized as a proxy to simply distinguish it from Delta, is being investigated however has not been designated a Variant Of Concern.
“It’s the nature of viruses to evolve and mutate, so it’s to be anticipated that we’ll proceed to see new variants emerge,” Dr Meera Chand, incident director on the UKHSA, mentioned.
“Our continued genomic surveillance permits us to detect them and assess whether or not they’re important.”
(Reporting by Alistair Smout. Enhancing by Andrew MacAskill)
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