Dr NK Arora, Chairman of the COVID working group, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), on Wednesday said that COVID-19 is still around us and quite a significant transmission of viruses is going on. In an exclusive interview with ANI Dr NK Arora Chairperson COVID working group, NTAGI said, “COVID is very much around us and there is quite a significant transmission of viruses going on at the moment in the country. Although we don’t see the severe form of COVID, but it is very much around.” Dr Arora further warned that the rapid change in Omicron sublineage is circulating. “During the last four or five months, we are rapidly seeing two or three changes in the genomic profile of viruses. So we started with BA.1 and then BA.2 and later on a lot of sub-lineage of BA.2 overtook. Somewhere in April, BA.4 and BA.5 also came and now we find during the last two weeks BA.2.75 is the dominant lineage which is circulating,” he said. View More…

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