BA.2.86 appears to descend from the BA.2 variant that emerged in early 2022.
A new Covid-19 lineage is being monitored by global health officials due to its large number of mutations that could make it tougher to prevent and treat. Not much is known about BA.2.86, which was first spotted by virus trackers earlier this week. Only a handful of cases have been reported in the US, Denmark and Israel, but its mutations caught the attention of the World Health Organisation and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Earlier this month, the WHO warned of another variant — dubbed “Eris” — spreading quickly around the world. Moderna and Pfizer both said Thursday their updated Covid shots protected against Eris in early studies. BA.2.86’s mutations give it “all the hallmark features of something that could take off,” Kristian Andersen, a Scripps Research immunologist and microbiologist, posted on Twitter, the social-media platform Elon Musk is renaming X. BA.2.86 appears to descend from the BA.
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