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PIROLA by FACETOUCHER

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1.	A new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant with a high number of mutations that could help it neutralise the immune system has emerged in four countries, raising alarm among scientists.	3:51

2.	“BA.2.86 is the most striking SARS-CoV-2 strain the world has witnessed since the emergence of omicron”	12:14

3.	BA.2.86, which some media outlets have nicknamed “Pirola,” is another subvariant of the omicron variant, this one descending from the BA.2 strain	4:00

4.	The new strain has 34 more mutations than BA.2 and 36 more than XBB.1.5	9:44

5.	The World Health Organization has labelled BA.2.86 a “variant under monitoring”—its second tier of notable covid variants.	5:24

6.	“Even in the worst case scenario where BA.2.86 caused a major new wave of cases, we are not expecting to witness comparable levels of severe disease and death [as] we did earlier in the pandemic when the alpha, delta, or omicron variants spread.”	8:27

7.	“BA.2.86 has since then probably been circulating in a region of the world with poor viral surveillance and has now been repeatedly exported to other places in the world.”	14:04

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released September 1, 2023

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