Category: Omicron
Denmark: Omicron BA.2_H78Y found in nearly 30% of samples – up 5% in one week
Denmark’s SSI has just released its latest Covid trend report which shows that the BA.2_H78Y subvariant of Omicron now appears in almost 30% of all sequences. More...
UK: Second Deltacron recombinant reported – Delta AY.4 and Omicron BA.1
Another Deltacron variant has been reported in the UK today, this one combining the Delta variant AY.4 and the Omicron variant BA.1. More...
UK Covid dashboard figures “totally misleading and should be abandoned”
The head of the ZOE Covid app in Great Britain, Tim Spector, took aim at the UK government’s Covid dashboard figures today, saying they are “totally misleading and should be abandoned”. More...
Preprint: Omicron BA.2 is more pathogenic than BA.1
“Infection experiments using hamsters show that BA.2 is more pathogenic than BA.1”
Statistical analysis shows that the effective reproduction number of BA.2 is 1.4-fold higher than that of BA.1. More...
Australia: possible Queensland Deltacron cluster identified *1 UPDATE*
We’ve seen several sequences collected early this year in Queensland, Australia being called Omicron unassigned by Pangolin and show similar patterns: ORF1ab mutations are more like from Delta with high alternate freq. More...
UK SAGE: Four scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic
UK SAGE have recently published a document outlining four different scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic in Britain. More...
USA: Deltacron recombinant – BA.1.1 collides with AY.119.2 – *1 UPDATE*
A second Deltacron recombinant variant derived from the Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 strains was announced by the UK earlier this week. More...
Denmark: New BA.2 subvariant with H78Y in ORf3a rises to 24% of all cases *3 UPDATES*
A new subvariant of BA.2 is seen, which has mutation H78Y in ORF3a, which amounts to approximately 24% of all cases, and together with BA.2 the 2 subvariants make up approximately 85% in week 5. More...
Denmark: Covid cases and hospitalizations by vaccine status *33 UPDATES*
A new thread that will be watching Denmark’s Covid figures. More...
Deltacron lives! Recombination between Delta and Omicron confirmed in the UK
The UKHSA have confirmed they are monitoring a recombinant variant of Delta and Omicron in the UK. More...