Health authorities in Moscow Five cases of the new Centaur variant (officially known as BA.2.75) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been detected, officials said today.
The samples were taken in July in Moscow. All patients have mild symptoms and are not hospitalized,” Rospotrebnadzor said.
BA.2.75 is secondary variant omicronrecently discovered in India, as well as in Australia, Japan, Canada, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, among other countries, although little is known about this lineage so far.
The Dutch Institute for Public Health (RIVM) also announced on July 13 the discovery of the first case of coronavirus infection. Centaur in the Netherlands.
Characteristics of the new variant
RIVM noted that this option It “appears” to evade the accumulated protection against the coronavirus more easily than others due to small specific mutations, although at the moment it does not seem to be more aggressive.
Russian health authorities They warned on Tuesday of an increase in the incidence of coronavirus in the country, which today registered 4,200 new cases of infection, 790 of them in Moscow.
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Source: RPP
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