Fundação Oswaldo Cruz announced that the even more contagious subvariant of Ômicron was identified in Brazil for the first time. BA.2 is up to 33% more transmissible than the original version BA.1 and has a greater ability to infect people already vaccinated against covid-19, according to studies carried out in other countries.
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In Fiocruz’s latest report, BA.2 was found among 3,739 virus samples collected in the period between January 14th and 27th. According to the document, the Ômicron variant corresponded to 95.9% of the genomes sequenced in January 2022 in Brazil and was found in all regions of the country. In December, the rate was 39.4%.
Brazil is experiencing a new wave of Covid-19 infections. Brazil registered this Friday (4) 1,074 deaths by Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, totalizing 631,069 Deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Thereby, the moving average of deaths in the last 7 days is 732 — the highest recorded since August 23 of last year (when it was at 766).
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 630,000 lives have been lost due to the new coronavirus.
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