Tag: subvariant
Covid-19: “the BA.5 subvariant has a very wide field of transmission”
France is facing a sharp increase in contamination, in particular caused by the active circulation of new sub-variants of Omicron BA4 and BA5, which are particularly contagious. Recommendations to put…
Covid: BA.5, the sub-variant whose symptoms intrigue scientists
“It started like a big crash,” Anna recalls. On June 17, and for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the antigen test of this thirty-year-old Parisian…
Variant XE: what is this new Omicron sub-variant?
VARIANT COVID. A new recombinant was detected for the first time in England on January 19, 2022. This is the XE variant, a mix between the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2…
It’s not over, it’s not over! What are the symptoms of Omicron subvariant BA.2? What should you pay attention to?
Omicron, a globally dominant variant with human-to-human transmission, has several subtypes. The most common of these are BA.1, BA.1.1 and BA.2. Many countries in the world have reported the infection…
Covid-19: the good and bad news of BA.2, the Omicron sub-variant
Rarely has the Scientific Council expressed itself with… an exclamation point. In a “warning note”, made public on Tuesday, the body responsible for guiding the government on the decisions to…
the majority BA.2 sub-variant, responsible for an epidemic rebound?
COVID. For the past few days, the number of new coronavirus contaminations has been rising slightly in France. The BA.2 sub-variant is now the majority according to the latest epidemiological…
Covid: can the BA.2 sub-variant be responsible for a new wave?
News Published 20 hours ago, Reading 2 mins. The Institut Pasteur reveals a predictive scenario where the spreading Omicron BA.2 sub-variant would not make a new wave, but some factors…
Omicron sub-variant: should we be worried? What scientists think
The Omicron family has had babies. Among the most robust: the BA.2 sub-lineage. For several weeks, it has been slowly gaining ground in France: 10.7% of interpretable sequences as of…
Omicron BA.2 sub-variant: 5% in France, reinfection, what symptoms?
The BA.2 variant, a minority in France, is a sub-variant of the Omicron variant. Between 5 and 6% of viruses in France would correspond to BA.2. Is this new mutation…
Omicron BA.2 sub-variant: 5% in France, what symptoms?
The BA.2 variant, a minority in France, is a sub-variant of the Omicron variant. “Between 5 and 6% of the viruses in circulation in our country correspond to BA.2” revealed…