Increasing Omicron Variant’s BA. 2 Subtype Worrying Scientists in UK

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The highly contagious Omicron covid-19 variant of the novel corona variant, which has been most common form of the variant, which is known as BA.1 that is now accounting for around all of the novel corona virus infections across the globe even though the dramatic increase in the corona virus cases have already been peaked in several countries.

The scientists have now been tracking an increase in the number of covid-19 cases by a subtype known as BA.2, which has been starting to outcompete with BA.1 in several parts of the continents of Europe and Asia. Across the globe, the BA.1 has been accounted for 98.8 percent of the sequenced cases that had been submitted to the public virus tracking database ‘GISAID’, but several countries that had been reporting the current increases in the subtype of the covid-19 variant.

Additionally the BA.2 Omicron covid-19 variant, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now listed two other subtypes under the Omicron covid-19 variant including BA.1.1.529 and bA.3, and all are mainly related to the genetics and each of the are also featuring the mutations that can possibly altering how the subtypes of the variant behave.

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The BA.2 variant of the Omicron covid-19 virus does not have the same missing target gene, and instead of that, the scientists are also monitoring it in the same way, they have monitored in the previous variants of the novel corona virus.