RJ Capital Determines Variant Status for Omicron BA.2 | Rio de Janeiro

Asia and Europe have already recorded an increase in Covid cases caused by BA.2.

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Rio health officials do not know if this person has recently been to any of these locations.

Scientists suspect that this variant is more transmissible than its predecessors. The secretariat said there was no cause for concern so far and that it was continuing to sequence the coronavirus.

Nearly 100 deaths in 24 hours

The Department of Health also reminds you that it is important to maintain preventive measures. only this friday 99 people died of covid in the state, with 40 in the capital. In total, the The number of confirmed deaths from the disease in Royal Jordanian has already exceeded 70,000.

The recommendation is to keep your distance, do hand hygiene, get vaccinated and wear masks the right way – i.e. cover your nose and mouth.

When viruses mutate into new variants, they sometimes split or branch into substrains. A delta variable, for example, is made up of 200 different sub-variables.

The same movement occurred with the ômicron, which includes the lines BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, and B.1.1.529.

BA.1 is responsible for most cases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 99% of viral DNA submitted to the global GISAID database (as of January 25, 2022) has been sequenced as this variant.

It is unclear where it originated from, but BA.1 was first discovered in November in sequences uploaded to the Philippine database.