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BREAKING! Catastrophic COVID-19 Infections And Hospitalizations In Hong Kong Driven By New BA.2 Subvariant With An Extra I1221T Spike Mutation!
Source: Medical News - BA.2 with SI1221T Mutation Mar 05, 2022 2 years, 8 months, 1 week, 1 day, 17 hours, 2 minutes ago
Hong Kong Is currently facing a catastrophic fifth COVID-19 wave with not only exponential daily new infections but also many exhibiting disease severity and causing hospitalizations to overwhelm the public healthcare system.
The situation is so bad that mainland China had to sent in teams of doctors and nurses along with hospital beds and medical equipment to help set up makeshift hospitals in carparks and schools in the city.
In the last 24 hours, Hong Kong reported 52,523 new COVID-19 infections and 188 new COVID-19 deaths and as of 2140 hours (Hong Kong), more than another 150 new COVID-19 deaths were reported and more than 39,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported but the numbers will increase as many testing centers have yet to submit their daily reports.
Almost 87% of all new genomic sequencings in Hong Kong are showing this new I1221Tspikemutation.
Researchers are still trying to figure out the role that this new spike mutation might play in transmissibility, immune evasiveness and also in pathogenesis.
We also strongly believe that new concerning BA.2 subvariants and also Delta subvariants have emerged in Vietnam, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada and that at least two new distinct SARS-CoV-2 lineages have emerged in Nigeria and also in Chad in the African continent, but a lot of data is deliberately being concealed.
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