Despite the vaccinations and the simplicity of the symptoms, the medical community never trustsnovel coronavirus.
Months after the discovery of Omicron, new scientific experiments showed that the mutant with mild symptoms has a relative that not only spreads just as quickly, but may also cause more serious disease.
And it seems that near Omicron The new one is able to thwart some of the major weapons the world has against the pandemic.
More dangerous than Delta?!
Japanese research indicated that the BA.2 mutant may have characteristics that make it capable of causing serious disease, such as the old variants of Corona, including Delta.
Like Omicron, its cousin may largely escape immunity from vaccines, and may also be resistant to some treatments.
In turn, Dr. Daniel Rhodes, head of the Department of Microbiology at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, explained that it may indeed be from a human perspective that BA.2 is the worst mutant, because it is able to infect in a way, and may cause worse disease, according to him.
It does not appear in BCR.
BA.2, which is a new term derived from the omicron mutant but is faster than it, is considered dangerous, because it does not appear in the PCR analysis, which made some call it “the hidden omicron”.
The new version of Omicron “BA.2” spread quickly in some European countries, such as Denmark, and cases of “BA.2” were also detected in California and Texas, in the United States, according to a report by CNN.
The experts also stressed that the first step to be taken is to establish a method for detecting BA.2 in the world.
The new guest is 30% to 50% more infectious than Omicron, and has been detected in 74 countries and 47 US states.
The world is in danger
It is noteworthy that the World Health Organization had warned a few days ago that the possibility of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic this year is in danger.
Last week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the opportunity to control the epidemic by the end of this year still exists, but there is an increasing risk that the world is about to miss this opportunity.
Ghebreyesus also warned that the large increase in the number of mild infections in countries that have reached high levels of vaccine coverage leads to the common saying that the pandemic is over, while there are still many regions in the world that record very low levels of vaccine coverage and testing, “which provides the conditions for ideal for the emergence of more viral mutations.
He stressed that 116 countries face a real risk of not reaching the global goal of vaccinating 70% of the population against Covid by the middle of this year, which is the percentage set by experts to reach herd immunity at the global level.
He added that the world urgently needs the support of political leaders to accelerate the distribution of vaccines to all countries of the world, and to provide them with the capabilities and resources needed for immunization campaigns, according to him.
According to the organization, 15.47 million new cases of corona were reported in the past few days worldwide, and more than 73,162 deaths.