News Forum - BA.2.75 Omicron sub-variant causing “concern” for authorities in SE Asia

[Thaiger]

The UN and the World Health Organisation is actively following a new sub-lineage designated BA.2.75, another variant of the Omicron derivative of Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2 ). It was first detected in India and has since been found in 10 other countries. The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, noted that new Covid-19 infections, globally,  have increased nearly 30% over the past two weeks. “In Europe and America, BA.4 and BA.5 are driving waves. In countries like India a new sub-lineage of BA.2.75 has also been detected, which we’re following.” WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan says that there has clearly […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

14 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

wear masks,

No need to worry about that,  even if they banned face masks here,  people would still insist on wearing them. 

[Cabra]

Time to play 275 in the upcoming lottery

[ThaiEyes]

Yes and let’s keeping bending over backwards to invite more tourists. Anyway we will see how everything plays out with these “scary” variants

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[JJJ]

Yes, it’s a big cause for concern. Everyone is talking about. You can’t go anywhere and not hear someone say how concerned they are about they 300th “variant”. 

Actually I’m sure the health medicrats are concerned much like Tony Fauci—there’s been a marked decrease in media interview requests. 

No one cares. By the end of July probably 50% of Thailand will have had covid twice and yet the world still goes on  

 

[Janneman]

Oh. And after sub-lineage of BA.2.75 comes BA.2.76 of course. And 77 and so on. With this coding system there is room for another 600.000 new variants. After that the WHO might switch to a 3-letter plus 3 digit code which gives room for roughly 1.8M new variants. Should be enough for a year or 2.

[stapoz]

The only one that causes "concern" is the World Health Organization