The White House is paying close attention to BA.4 and BA.5, two new subvariants of the COVID-19 Omicron strain that are being tracked by the World Health Organization.
“We spoke to [South Africa] as recently as Sunday, that they can’t make any statements right now about BA.4 or BA.5,” he told Politico’snewsletter, noting that it’s not a surprise for a virus to mutate. “A phenotypic consequence may mean it makes it a little bit more or less transmissible.”
The World Health Organization is analyzing the subvariants to find out how infectious and dangerous they might be. reported this week that health authorities had found a few dozen cases in South Africa, Denmark, Botswana, Scotland, England, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany., WHO lead epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, said less than 200 sequences of BA.4 and BA.5 have been detected so far.
At the same news conference, Mike Ryan, MD, the executive director of the Health Emergencies Program for the WHO, warned that the
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