The emergence a new COVID subvariant that has appeared in India and a handful of other countries, including Australia, could signal a new phase of the pandemic.
Examine, a weekly newsletter covering the latest developments in science, is sent every Tuesday. Below is an excerpt –Health experts are keeping a close eye on a new subvariant of COVID-19, nicknamed “centaurus”, that has cropped up in a handful of places, including Australia.
“There are about 200 sequences available from about 14 countries. Our understanding of this virus is quite limited so far because we have very few sequences available,” she said. Previous variants of concern such as Delta have now largely been wiped out by the family of Omicron subvariants.given to the subvariant by a Twitter user,
“That makes sense from a viral evolution point of view because if a virus can keep you upright and walking around infecting other people, then it will spread much better. The ability of the various Omicron subvariants to evade immunity is mostly chalked up to the fact that all the vaccines currently in use are derived from the original ancestral strain of SARS-CoV-2.
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