With fatalities declining and people getting used to living with the virus, adherence to social distancing protocols has been mostly absent from public life.
Omicron BA.2 was the dominant lineage in Bangladesh in January, finds a study run by the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR). Of two lineages – Omicron BA.1 and Omicron BA.2 – the latter accounted for 41% of infections and the former one for 39% during the last month, reads the report styled "National SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance in
More than 80% of the Covid-19 cases in the country are of the Omicron variant, while 18% of the cases have been found to be the Delta variant, said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Thursday (10 February).
Bangladesh has reported seven more cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus after the new variant was first detected in December. With this, the total number of Omicron cases in the country stands at 62 as of Thursday morning, according to the data released from Germany in the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID), an international