Although it’s too early to say it’s coming to an end, it is Covid crisis seems to offer some relief. In fact, the restrictive measures are bred all over the world and the numbers seem to offer a more encouraging outlook after a few days of cold. With in particular contamination what hint at the end the BA.2 wave.
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However, if this battle is won, the “war” is not over. The fault of new variants or some recombinant (Combinations of two variants) that appear in all corners of the world and which systematically lead to the fear of a rebound.
First Waves
This applies in particular to deltacronhybrids out delta and omicron. But almost everyone’s eyes are on them today XE variant. A hybrid from BA.1 and BA.2 (subvariants of Omicron) are considered “10% more contagious” than BA.2 according to the World Health Organization.
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A variant that progresses particularly well United Kingdom where more than a thousand cases have been identified. This allows, among other things, to see its effects on the contaminated. And they bring back bad memories.
In fact, according to many observers, the loss of smell (anosmia) and the loss of taste (ageusia) are among the symptoms observed in infected people, according to our colleagues at the Huffington Post. Symptoms that characterized the first waves of the epidemic but did not appear under Omicron. It remains to be seen if these more severe symptoms are also synonymous with a more aggressive version of the disease. illness. “So far there is not enough evidence to draw any conclusions about the transmissibility, severity or effectiveness of the vaccine,” said Susan Hopkins, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London and the UK Health Safety Authority (UKHSA).