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INSACOG Confirms Presence of BA.4 & BA.5 Variants of Covid in India

Dais Newsfeed | 23/05/2022 09:20 AM | Click to read full article

Central body INSACOG confirmed the detection of BA.4 and BA.5 variants of the Covid-19 virus in India on Sunday.

BA.4 and BA.5 are subvariants of the Omicron variant that was behind driving the third wave of the Covid pandemic in January of this year. As per reports, both the subvariants have been detected in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

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