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Researchers still don’t know how well BA.2.86 will evade immunity or whether it will cause more severe disease than its predecessors.

Cubas second-ever submarine cable, connecting Cuba to Martinique and deployed by Orange, is now being tested. The cable began testing in April.

Since january. the number of hospitalizations are up as well. how worried are you at this moment, dr. fauci, about the ba.5 variant, and what do we need to know about how to protect ourselves? >> well, its something we absolutely need to take seriously. it has a transmission advantage over the prior variants that were dominant. the dominant variant was first ba 1, then ba.2, then 2.1. then you get to ba.5, which clearly has a transmission advantage which is one of the reasons why were seeing thr...

You may be at risk of catching the new subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 even if you had the original omicron, virologist Alex Sigal told DW's Science Unscripted.

You may be at risk of catching new COVID subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 even if you had the original omicron, as virologist Alex Sigal told DW's Science Unscripted.

There is thought there could be even new mutations. >> it looks like that bay. we know of ba.1 and ba.2, theres all these numbers, theres ba.2.12.1, there is two more that are starting to circulate in south africa pretty significantly and they are no doubt going to come here. we have to assume when we see these things happening in other places around the world, viruses dont -- they cross borders, they dont discriminate in this way. take a look at whats happening in south africa, this is what gav...

You may be at risk of catching new COVID subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 even if you had the original omicron, as virologist Alex Sigal told DW's Science Unscripted.

People who've already had the original omicron can also be infected by the latest mutations of the variant, B.A.4 and B.A.5.

The variant, which has been detected in very small numbers in the U.S., is a mixture of the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 types.

Restrictions. the mental health damage. the depression. the anxiety, the substance abuse. >> bret: last thing really quickly. you know, we hear other things, other subvariants that are, you know, popping up. but nothing is on the board right now that suggests that were going to have to reverse where we are heading, right? >> absolutely not. the ba 2 vary divlant we are all talking about in south africa, 86% of the cases. no skyrocketing of cases. what science is showing about that subvariant is ...