Alexander Solovyov explains that “centaur” is the unofficial name of the new version of the BA.2.75 omicron. Since the end of 2021, WHO has ceased to assign letters of the Greek alphabet to new variants of the coronavirus – everything is over on the omicron. We switched to alphanumeric classification, so there were options BA1, BA2, BA4, BA5 and so on.
Tatyana Ovsyannikova, chief physician of the network of multidisciplinary clinics for the whole family “1 + 1”, explains that now the “centaur” has been discovered in Japan, the USA, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.
“This subspecies is expected to have an increased ability to overcome immunity and be more contagious, more resistant to antibodies obtained by vaccination or disease. Centaur’s growth dynamics is 16% higher than the previous options. Most likely, the increase in the incidence will go from mid-August – early autumn.
Andrei Pozdnyakov says that so far there are no clear data on the severity of the disease when infected with SARS-CoV-2, and this is precisely the most important thing.
