Cases of the new COVID variant BA.2.86 have been spotted in Michigan, Denmark and Israel.
Experts say reports of BA.2.86 being spotted in countries in three different continents — Denmark, Israel and U.S. — also
it is at least capable of transmitting widely and could have been spreading undetected for some time.by a lab at the University of Michigan. According to records attached to the sequence uploaded to GISAID, a global virus database, the sample was sequenced by the university's clinical microbiology lab during"baseline surveillance."
It is unclear whether the samples were collected from a hospitalized patient in the health system run by the university or from another source. A spokesperson for the University of Michigan Medical School declined to comment on the possible origin of the sequence, deferring to Michigan's state health department. A spokesperson for Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services was not able to immediately answer a request for comment.
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