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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Covid: Stealth Omicron could cause more severe disease, study finds

Stealth Omicron - also known as BA.2 subvariant - could cause more severe disease than the original version of the strain, according to a new study.

New lab experiments in Japan found BA.2 may also be more capable of escaping the immunity conferred by vaccination.

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