Omicron variant BA.2.75 has been detected in India, UK, US, Australia, Germany and Canada
Source: ‘Centaurus’: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariant
““It’s not so much the exact mutations, more the number/combination,” said Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, who was the first to identify Omicron as a potential concern back in November 2021. “It’s hard to predict the effect of that many mutations appearing together – it gives the virus a bit of a ‘wildcard’ property where the sum of the parts could be worse than the parts individually.”
