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The lineage named BA.2.86 has been detected in the United States, Denmark and Israel, according to US Centers for Disease Control...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said they are monitoring a new variant of Covid-19 carrying a large number of mutations..
The UN health agency said the variant, BA.2.86, has been detected in a handful of countries and more data are required to understand the strain and the extent of its spread..
Dr S. Wesley Long, medical director of diagnostic microbiology at Houston Methodist, said the new lineage, with 36 mutations from the currently-dominant Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, "harkens back to an earlier branch" of the virus, reported Reuters..
Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, in a slide deck published on Thursday, said the most likely scenario is this variant is less transmissible than current dominant variants..
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