BA.5 Omicron New Symptoms: Two Latest Signs of this Variant of COVID-19 Revealed - Check If You Have Them.
All the viruses in the environment have one characteristic in common - they mutate. SARS-CoV-2 is no different, the virus, found in 2019 has mutated several times giving birth to new variants and sub-variants. One of the most dangerous mutations that the virus went through was delta, the dominant strain which led to the ferocious second wave of COVID-19 in India. However, there was another variant which overpowered delta and became one of the most concerning strains of COVID-19 - Omicron, the variant of coronavirus which is carrying over 42 worrisome mutations in its spike protein, which makes it capable of infecting fully immunized individuals as well. Omicron has two more sub-lineages BA.4 and BA.5 which are the result of further mutations in the variant. BA.5 Has A New Set of Symptoms As the new COVID variant, Omicron is spreading at a fast pace across the countries, health experts have cautioned that it can cause a whole array of signs and symptoms, many of them different or les...