The Statens Serum Institut (SSI) in Denmark has in recent weeks registered more and more cases of the new sub-variant of the virus, but there is no indication that this gives a more serious course of the disease than other sub-variants of omicron, according to Heunicke.
– Currently, almost 17 percent of the Danish cases are in week 22 with this variant, he writes on Twitter.
The number of detected cases with the BA.5 variant is now increasing by 71 per cent every week, which corresponds to a doubling time of nine days, according to the Danish Ministry of Health, which emphasizes that there is “significant uncertainty” associated with the figures.
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