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COVID-19 in US: Omicron Makes Up One Quarter of New Cases

by Colleen Fleiss on Mar 17 2022 11:01 PM

In the United States, the BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant now makes up nearly a quarter of new coronavirus infections.

COVID-19 in US: Omicron Makes Up One Quarter of New Cases
In the United States, the BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant now makes up nearly a quarter of new coronavirus infections, revealed data of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This data is up from around 1 in 10 new cases just a week prior, Xinhua news agency reported.

Early studies showed that BA.2 may be up to 30 per cent more transmissible than the original Omicron.

Source-IANS


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