Health Canada is monitoring a new COVID-19 variant that has been detected in several countries.
Health Canada is monitoring a new COVID-19 variant that has been detected in several countries, officials have confirmed.to its list of COVID-19 variants that are under monitoring on Thursday.
The new variant has been detected in Denmark, Israel and the U.S. since late July, according to the open global genome sequencing databaseEpidemiologists and infectious disease experts maintain that the emergence of this new variant is not yet reason to be concerned. Since the detection of this mutation is still early, Bogoch said that not enough information is known about BA.2.86’s transmissibility.
“Genotyping,” a component of pathogen surveillance networks, allow scientists to observe changes in viruses in multiple regions – through waste water or clinical diagnosis – and then share data to open source public networks, he explained.
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