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New Omicron variant BF.7 sweeps to more provinces; experts warn it will dominate domestic flare-up
By Global Times
Published: Oct 10, 2022 09:48 PM
New Omicron variant BF.7 has swept to more provinces in China on Monday, less a week after it was firstly identified in Northwest China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
On Monday, officials from Yantai, a city in North China's Shandong Province, confirmed that locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases detected since October 4 were triggered by variant BF.7, which are highly homologous with those found in another province. One day earlier on Sunday, Shaoguan city in South China's Guangdong Province also detected cases of BF.7 variant.
The World Health Organization had warned against the fast-spreading BF.7 across the world, and has expected it to become the new dominate variant.
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By Global Times
Published: Oct 10, 2022 09:48 PM
New Omicron variant BF.7 has swept to more provinces in China on Monday, less a week after it was firstly identified in Northwest China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
On Monday, officials from Yantai, a city in North China's Shandong Province, confirmed that locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases detected since October 4 were triggered by variant BF.7, which are highly homologous with those found in another province. One day earlier on Sunday, Shaoguan city in South China's Guangdong Province also detected cases of BF.7 variant.
The World Health Organization had warned against the fast-spreading BF.7 across the world, and has expected it to become the new dominate variant.
more...
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