New variant scare? UK's winter top-up Covid vaccine plan
UK Covid Update: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not classified BA.2.86 as a “variant of concern”. | World News
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UK Covid Update: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not classified BA.2.86 as a “variant of concern”. | World News
The UK health authorities began rolling out their winter vaccine schedule for the most medically vulnerable on Monday, brought forward from a planned early October rollout amid concerns around the new COVID variant BA.2.86.
The latest Covid-19 variant BA.2.86 may be transmissable enough to have an impact in settings where people are in close contact, following an outbreak at a care home in Norfolk, experts said.It is too early to judge the full extent of the strain of c...
So far, there is no evidence that BA.2.86 is more severe than other Omicron strains. However, it is important to monitor the situation closely as the subvariant continues to spread. TheHealthSite.com
UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday (Sept 8) that 34 Covid-19 cases linked to the highly mutated variant BA.2.86 had been identified in England. The Omicron offshoot carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant variant through most of 2023, a number roughly on par with the Omicron variant that...