{"id":5168,"date":"2022-07-19T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2022-07-19T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:48:00","slug":"viral-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=5168","title":{"rendered":"VIRAL THREAT&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Covid variant dubbed \u2018Centaurus\u2019 already \u2018detected in 10 countries including UK and US\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authors: <strong>Vanessa Chalmers<\/strong>  U.S, Sun  Jul 19 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BA.2.75, nicknamed Centaurus, was first detected and is spreading rapidly in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/where\/india\/\">India<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a relative of Omicon, the original strains of which were shown to be more mild Covid illness (BA.1 and BA.2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health chiefs, however, do not know how new versions of Omicron (BA.2.75,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/health\/5773341\/top-symptoms-new-omicron-strains-revealed-cases-hit-high\/\">BA.4 and BA.5<\/a>) compare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it is feared that Centaurus is even more infectious than Omicron strains that have come before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK has seen 18 cases to date, and is among roughly 10 countries where Centaurus has been detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSA said: \u201cWe are aware of a small number of cases of the emergent variant Omicron BA.2.75 in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At this point, it is too early to draw conclusions about the relative transmissibility of this variant, or the illness it may cause, compared to the currently-dominant variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUKHSA is monitoring the situation closely, as we do all data relating to SARS-CoV-2 variants in the UK and around the globe through our world-leading genomic surveillance systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BA.2.75 appears to be spreading faster than other variants in India, Lipi Thukral, a scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-07-coronavirus-mutant-india.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MedicalXpress<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Covid variant dubbed \u2018Centaurus\u2019 already \u2018detected in 10 countries including UK and US\u2019 Authors: Vanessa Chalmers U.S, Sun Jul 19 2022 BA.2.75, nicknamed Centaurus, was first detected and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,746,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ba-4-covid","category-ba-5-covid","category-centaurus","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}