Face of Malawi: Botswana detects new Covid Omicron sub-variant.

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https://www.faceofmalawi.com/2022/04/12/botswana-detects-new-covid-omicron-sub-variant/

[The Botswana health ministry says it has detected a new lineage of the Covid-19 Omicron variant.

The infected are currently being monitored to establish more information on the potential impact of the disease and its severity. The new sub-variant, designated
as Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 has already been detected in three other countries and
on four people in Botswana. The four people were fully vaccinated and had been
experiencing mild symptoms.

So far, no conclusions have been made to establish whether this sub-variant is more transmittable than the known Omicron variant.

This happens as the World Health Organization announces it is tracking a few dozen cases of the two new sub-variants of the highly transmissible Omicron strain to assess whether they are more infectious or dangerous.]

Who coulda seen new variants occurring? These sure put the ending of mask and
vax mandates in perspective. I'm happy that I'm not part of The FreeDumb crowd!

There's a photo but no more text at the link. I have edited the text to meet our DU
4-paragraph rule.

NOTE: I first saw this article on The BBC site but couldn't link directly to the article
there. It wasn't difficult to find alternative sources and the article here at the Face of
Malawi site I do link to is exactly the same as the BBC article. It's good to find new
and reliable news sources.