The President of the Scientific Council specifies that there were undoubtedly a number of cases “underestimated” in France linked to this sub-variant. We do not yet know its level of severity.
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“How serious will it be? I do not know“. Guest of the 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, the president of the Scientific Council was questioned about the detection of a new variant of Covid-19: BA.2.
The BA.2 is a “little cousin” of the Omicron variant. It became the majority in Denmark: “He seems to be taking power. If he takes power in Denmark and he explains the situation in Denmark, it means that he is even more transmissible. The question posed is to know what will be his gravity. So we look at it with great attention”, he pointed out.
The BA.2 is not only present in Denmark. “We have it in France. We will look at what is happening. It exists in other regions of the world, and in particular in Africa and also in India, where it would be becoming the majority”, explained Jean-François Delfraissy, specifying that there were undoubtedly a number of cases “underestimated” in France linked to this subvariant.
Omicron sub-variant ➡️ “The BA.2 is a little cousin of Omicron. It is even more transmissible but the question: how serious will it be?” says Jean-Francois Delfraissy. “He is already in France and would be becoming the majority in India.” pic.twitter.com/onVe9uWcCb
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“Why would it be more transmissible? What else happens to it? I don’t know. No one knows at the moment. Second question asked: what is its level of severity? If we have a variant that does not isn’t serious, after all, the problem is different. Well, I don’t know about the BA.2”, recognized Jean-François Delfraissy.
A few minutes earlier, Jean-François Delfraissy indicated that “the Omicron wave is not over” corn “she is different“of the preceding, estimating”see land things rather around mid-March with a gradual, very slow decline in terms of hospitalizations“.