{"id":41247,"date":"2022-01-31T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/omicron-what-do-we-know-about-stealth-subvariant-ba2"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:18:08","slug":"omicron-what-do-we-know-about-stealth-subvariant-ba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41247","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: what do we know about \u2018stealth\u2019 subvariant BA.2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron\u2019s \u2018close cousin\u2019 has mutations that could alter how it behaves and has begun to surpass Covid\u2019s most common variety in parts of Europe and Asia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus \u2013 the most common form of which is known as BA.1 \u2013 now accounts for nearly all of the coronavirus infections globally.<\/p>\n<p>Though Covid cases have already peaked in some countries, scientists are now tracking a rise in cases caused by a close cousin of Omicron known as BA.2, which is starting to outcompete BA.1 in parts of Europe and Asia. The following is what we know so far about the new subvariant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/31\/omicron-what-do-we-know-about-stealth-subvariant-ba2\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron\u2019s \u2018close cousin\u2019 has mutations that could alter how it behaves and has begun to surpass Covid\u2019s most common variety in parts of Europe and AsiaSee all our coronavirus coverageThe highly transmissible Omicron variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus \u2013 th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,221,346,2458,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-health","category-omicron-variant","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41248,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41247\/revisions\/41248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}