The variants in China were the same Omicron sub-variants seen elsewhere in the world, he said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - The world should “calm down” about the possibility of new Covid-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said.
The variants causing infections in China were the same Omicron sub-variants - BA.5.2 and BF.7 - seen elsewhere in the world, he said by email. A prominent government scientist said on Jan 21 that 80 per cent of people had already been infected and China’s CDC has said repeatedly in the past month that continuous monitoring showed no new strains of Covid-19 have been found.
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