{"id":24691,"date":"2022-02-04T02:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/who-subtype-of-omicron-ba-2-has-been-discovered-in-five-african-countries\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T02:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:41:56","slug":"who-subtype-of-omicron-ba-2-has-been-discovered-in-five-african-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/who-subtype-of-omicron-ba-2-has-been-discovered-in-five-african-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Subtype of Omicron BA.  2 has been discovered in five African countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"firstP\">\n<p>A subtype of the Omicron virus known as &#8220;BA.2&#8221; has been found in five African countries, a World Health Organization scientist said today, adding that she was concerned about the development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;BA.2 is registered in five countries, namely Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, as well as in the Republic of South Africa,&#8221; said Niksi Gumede-Moeleci in an online press conference, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very concerned,&#8221; she added.  According to preliminary data, this type of Omicron is more contagious than other types of Omicron, announced yesterday the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Although BA.1 still accounts for more than 96 percent of Omicron sequence cases, BA.2 accounts for more than half of Omicron sequence samples in some countries, the WHO said in a weekly report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>top channel<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\tvar ajaxurl = \"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\";<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Google Analytics\n\t\twindow.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];\n\t\tfunction gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}\n\t\tgtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>\t\tgtag('config', 'UA-7855069-1');<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Facebook\n\t\twindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n\t\t\tFB.init({\n\t\t\t\tappId      : '1715618661991455',\n\t\t\t\txfbml      : true,\n\t\t\t\tversion    : 'v2.10'\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\tFB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n\t\t};<\/p>\n<p>\t\t(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t   <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/2022\/02\/04\/obsh-nentipi-i-omicron-ba-2-eshte-zbuluar-ne-pese-vende-afrikane\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A subtype of the Omicron virus known as &#8220;BA.2&#8221; has been found in five African countries, a World Health Organization scientist said today, adding that she was concerned about the development. &#8220;BA.2 is registered in five countries, namely Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, as well as in the Republic of South Africa,&#8221; said Niksi Gumede-Moeleci [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[5263,1541,2762,6352,13016],"class_list":["post-24691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attualita","tag-african","tag-countries","tag-discovered","tag-omicron","tag-subtype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}