Martin and a team of researchers recently shared early findings regarding the original Omicron lineage, noting more than a dozen of BA.1's high number of mutations are highly rare, suggesting they ...

The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which is classed as a variant under investigation in the UK, spreads much faster than the original BA.1 strain but it also seems to show ...

2 is not considered a separate variant to the original Omicron, which is also known as BA.1, but rather within the same family. Scientists would call BA.2 a sub variant or sub-lineage. Other names ...