A new sister variant of the Omicron strain of Covid 19 is now the dominant one in Northern Ireland, a top GP here has said.
The BA.2 strain is even more transmissible than its connected Omicron variant of the disease according to Dr Alan Stout, chair of the British Medical Association's GP committee in Northern Ireland.
The GP said currently between one in 17 and one in 20 people here in NI are currently infected, one of the highest transmission levels seen since the start of the pandemic.
