The widespread prevalence of the highly infectious BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron could have a positive impact on the future trajectory of the disease, a public health expert has said.as a result of the sub-variant.
The BA.2 variant could also act as competition to any “entirely new variant” which could be more severe, he said. He said the recent drop-off in case numbers was “probably real rather than an artefact of low levels of testing”.
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