The rapidly spreading BA.5 Omicron subvariant is driving infections across the country - but health experts are now on alert over a new looming threat. 7NEWS
So, what does it mean for the future of living with COVID in Australia and could it become the new dominant strain?TGA approves paediatric doses of COVID-19 vaccines for babies in AustraliaThe new fast-spreading variant BA.2.75, nicknamed “Centaurus”, is rapidly gaining ground in India after it was first recorded in May and has already been detected in Australia.
“It’s one of the new variants of the Omicron group, which are all hugely transmissible,” Curtin University epidemiologist Archie Clements toldThere’s not enough data at this stage to tell just how transmissible it will be, but its association with the other Omicron strains makes it “highly likely” it will be easily spread, he explained.
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