Omicron Surge Declining, But WHO Warns Against Sub-Variant BA.2

Friday, 18 February 2022newsdesk

The Omicron variant, which led the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, is slowing down across the world. Many countries are removing the strict restrictions put in place to check the spread of the infection. But, a World health Organization (WHO) official has raised a fresh concern related to an Omicron sub-strain.

New Delhi, 18 February 2022

As per news report of NDTV, “The virus is evolving and Omicron has several sub-lineages that we are tracking. We have BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3. It's really quite incredible how Omicron, the latest variant of concern has overtaken Delta around the world,” Maria Van Kerkhove, Covid-19 technical lead at the WHO, said at a briefing on Thursday. The video was posted on Twitter by the WHO. “Most of the sequences are this sub-lineage BA.1. We are also seeing an increasing in proportion of sequences of BA.2,” she added. In the tweet accompanying the video, the WHO said that almost 75,000 deaths from Covid-19 were reported last week.

Source - NDTV