Category: Omicron
Denmark: Omicron BA.2.H78Y cases level off in Week 8 infections report
Denmark has just released its latest Covid-19 infections report for Week 8 of 2022. More...
BA.2 spawns another subvariant – BA.2 + ORF1a:M85 – already at 10% of sequences in Denmark
Yet another fast-growing offshoot of Omicron BA.2 has been reported in Denmark today. More...
Is the global Sars-CoV-2 decline already petering out? *4 UPDATES & 1 PREDICTION*
Is the Omicron decline already petering out? There’s not much to go on yet, a few stutters in the world cases chart, some countries starting to see new surges, but it all looks vaguely familiar. More...
WHO: BA.2 to remain classified as Omicron
Based on available data of transmission, severity, reinfection, diagnostics, therapeutics and impacts of vaccines, the group reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern and that it should remain classified as Omicron. More...
Denmark: BA.1 infection followed by BA.2 reinfection can occur
From a total of 187 reinfection cases, we identified 47 instances of BA.2 reinfections shortly after a BA.1 infection, mostly in young unvaccinated individuals with mild disease not resulting in hospitalization or death. More...
Potential Omicron BA.1/BA.2 recombinant variants in Denmark and Finland
More reports of a SARS-CoV-2 recombinant variants have surfaced today, this time between the two Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, with 43 sequences in Denmark, and eight sequences found in Finland. More...
Israel: Finance minister “totally fine” with 1,000 Covid deaths a month
When asked about the over 1,000 who died of Covid in Israel in the past month, Finance minister Avigdor Liberman said, “I am totally fine with it. More...
UK Queen tests positive for Covid
The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, ahead of the expected ending of all coronavirus restrictions in England in the coming days. More...
Europe: potential Deltacron recombinants in Denmark, France, Netherlands
Not confirmed yet, but worth flagging, are potential Deltacron recombinants of Delta AY.4 and Omicron BA.1/BA.2 found in Denmark, France and Netherlands. More...
UK: February risk assessment for the BA.2 Omicron strain
The February 2022 risk assessment for the BA.2 strain from the UKHSA. More...