Nearly 1,000 confirmed cases of a new sublineage of the Omicron variant have been discovered in Ontario to date, newly released data from Public Health Ontario show, but experts say it doesn't warrant significant concern.
Nearly 1,000 confirmed cases of a new sublineage of the Omicron variant have been discovered in Ontario
The brief said the first case of BA.2.20 had a sample collection date of Feb. 14 and that there have been 996 cases confirmed in the province. "This is probably something that's been buried within our BA.2 wave ... whatever's happened over the last two or three months in our so-called sixth wave may have involved some of this as well," he said in a phone interview Friday.
Dr. Gerald Evans, an infectious disease professor at Queen's University and the medical director of infection prevention and control at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, said BA.2.20 has been around in Ontario for about three months now and so far is "really not expanding." The Public Health Ontario brief states that the highest proportion of BA.2.20 cases was among the 20-39 age group, which accounted for 38.9 per cent of cases, followed by the 40-59, which accounted for 30.9 per cent.
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