The latest COVID-19 variant, B.2.86, has an ‘alarming’ number of mutations not seen since last year’s omicron surge. Cases are already being reported around the world, but not yet in Utah.
The Saudi Ministry of Health has emphasized that EG.5, the new coronavirus variant, does not have any noticeable effect on disease rates or severity, and hence it is not required to take additional health measures
Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a risk assessment posted Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest COVID-19 variant, B.2.86, has an ‘alarming’ number of mutations not seen since last year’s omicron surge. Cases are already being reported around the world, but not yet in Utah.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization designated BA.2.86 a “variant under monitoring” on Thursday, a designation that encourages countries to track and report the sequences they find”.