The director general of the Pasteur Institute of Algeria announced the appearance of cases of the new omicron subvariant, baptized BA.2.
In a declaration granted to the Arabic-speaking daily Al Bilad, the manager specifies that the cases of this new subvariant were detected in the Willayas of Algiers, Constantine and Oran.
He, however, assured that in terms of dangerousness, the new change in variant omicron remains similar to his first strain.
Note that the first results of the sequencing of this mutation revealed many similarities between the variant BA.2 and omicron but also a notable difference on the SPIKE protein which determines the contagiousness of the virus but also the effects of the immune response permitted by antibodies.
In Denmark where he became dominant, the main public health institute explains that the Ba. 2 subvariant “spreads more than once and a half more quickly than the original BA.1. It would particularly affect children and non -vaccinated people. ”
In Tunisia, the Institut Pasteur evokes mutations in omicron and the presence of many submumters, but is not, for the moment, the existence of BA. 2.
