WHO: New Omicron variant similar in severity to original version
VOA says an emerging version of the omicron variant of coronavirus does not seem more severe than the variant’s original version, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Dr. Boris Pavlin of the WHO’s COVID-19 Response Team addressed the new variant in an online briefing as omicron’s more common BA.1 subvariant is replaced in Denmark and some other countries with the newer BA.2 subvariant.
“Looking at other countries where BA.2 is now overtaking, we’re not seeing any higher bumps in hospitalization than expected,” said Pavlin.
Pavlin said his remarks are based on data from Denmark, the first country where BA.2 surpassed BA.1. He added that vaccines continue to provide similar protection against the different forms of omicron.
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