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The World
Health Organisation says the latest BA.2 variant of the Omicron
coronavirus is no more virulent than the original strain.
In a
statement released on Tuesday, the Geneva-based UN health body said that
based on samples taken from people from various countries, "we are not
seeing a difference in severity of BA.1 compared to BA.2."
Senior
WHO official, Maria Van Kerkhove reported that the new variant has "a
similar level of severity as it relates to risk of hospitalisation."
She underlined this was an important discovery as many
countries have had a substantial circulation of
both of BA.1 and BA.2 Omicron strains.
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Data suggests Covid-19 is declining
Van
Kerkhove, who leads the technical side of the WHO's Covid-19 response team, was
reporting the findings of a committee of experts tracking the evolution of the
virus.
The conclusions come as a relief to countries such as
Denmark, where the BA.2 variant of Omicron circulates widely.
The WHO
added, however, that initial data suggests the new BA.2 variant
"appears inherently more transmissible than BA.1," and that further
studies are underway to discover why this is the case.
On a positive note, the WHO declared that the global
circulation of all variants of Covid-19 is declining.
To date,
the coronavirus has killed more than 5.8 million people worldwide,
But
taking into account excess mortality linked to Covid-19, the WHO estimates the
true death toll could be two to three times higher.
There are some cruel governments continue to melodramatize this covid story to take...bribe money from vaccine and test kits...
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