Today (5 May 65) the page of the Medical Genome Center, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, revealed the chance of contracting a subspecies of omikron. By stating reports from scientists abroad. It was found that from laboratory experiments, omicron subspecies BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 can be transmitted from person to person quickly. However, people infected with such subspecies tend to have mild symptoms. Close to the original Omicron
Professor Julie Swann of North Carolina State University, US CDC adviser on the epidemic. revealed that a person’s risk level of re-infection It may depend on other factors, such as age, underlying health condition. And at the time of last vaccination or last infection, if a person in their 60s received a booster vaccination four to six months ago, they may be at risk of reinfection with the new subspecies of omikron. and may have severe symptoms On the other hand, if a person who is 60 years old but has been previously infected with coronavirus or has received a booster vaccine within 3-4 months, if infected with the newly emerged subspecies of omikron. will have mild symptoms of COVID-19
Professor Alex Sigal, a virologist at the African Health Research Institute in South Africa. It states that people who have been both vaccinated and infected with the original omikron strain may have a broader immune response. that can fight against a new species of omikron that has just emerged
As for Thailand, the vaccination rate is up to 80%, which is higher than the UK, USA, Germany and India. Together with medical institutions across the country, randomly decoding the entire genome of the coronavirus, found that BA.1 is extinct. while the number of new BA.2 cases has continued to decline. The omicron subspecies BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 have not been found in the country.
While BA.4 genome randomizations, both from global samples and submissions based on the global coronavirus database “GISAID”, have seen 667 people, an estimated 2,652 outbreaks are likely to occur. All BA.5 genomes from all over the world and ‘GISAID’ have been submitted to 318 people, and it is estimated that there may be an outbreak of 1,000.
Recently, the entire genome of the BA.2.12.1 genome has been randomly extracted from around the world and has been reported on “GISAID” so far 10,233 people are estimated to have an outbreak of more than 40,000 people worldwide.