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Number of enumerated Omicron subvariants now 119
That is where people have got to in updating the number of Omicron variants anyhow. There are more likely 300 to 400 of them, but the number of variants are going too fast to keep track of of all of them. Variants like B.2.23 and BA.2.33 had been seen in Australia and the USA but…
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BA.4 and BA.5 dominate Covid cases in South Africa
BA.4 and BA.5 have almost completely dominated all the Omicron variants now (see below). Compared the rest of the world which is still going through a BA.2 variant wave (see below). Here is the United Kingdom: Here is the USA: The grey area in the bottom right corner is the rapidly growing BA.2.12.1 Here is…
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Move over for BA.12. Ten-times more infectious than BA.2
A new variant of the novel coronavirus, BA.12, was found in Bihar’s Patna on Thursday. According to the state’s health department, the new variant of Omicron was found in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS). There is a new kid in town and we have not dealt with waves from BA.2.9, BA.2.2, BA.2.12, BA.2.12.1,…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases