There is no evidence that BA.2.86 spreads faster or causes more serious illness than previous versions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The World Health Organisation and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are trackingSix cases in four countries have been detected since late July. Scientists are keeping an eye on the new lineage, named BA.2.86, because it has 36 mutations that distinguish it from the currently-dominant XBB.1.5 variant.
Over the past few days, public health authorities have documented one case each of BA.2.86 in the United States, the UK, and Israel, and three cases in Denmark.BA.2.86 stems from an “earlier branch” of the coronavirus, so it differs from the variant targeted by current vaccines, explained Dr S. Wesley Long, medical director of diagnostic microbiology at Houston Methodist Hospital.
But many countries have drastically reduced testing of patients and their efforts to analyze the genomes of the viruses causing new COVID cases. Its many mutations make BA.2.86 “radically different in its structure” compared to earlier variants, Topol said.More On This TopicUS emergency department visits and hospitalisations for Covid-19 remain low, but have been rising since early July, according to data on the CDC website.
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