World Health Organisation epidemiologist Dr Maria Van Kerkhove on Tuesday said that the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is expected to be detected more since it is more transmissible than the BA.1 subvariant. In a press briefing, Kerkhove also reiterated that there is no evidence to show that the BA.2 subvariant is more severe than the BA.1. The BA.2 sub-strain, commonly …
Prime minister Mark Rutte has called a press conference on Saturday evening to announce tough new measures to brake the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. Rutte and health minister Hugo de Jonge will be joined by Jaap van Dissel, head of the public health institute RIVM, at the 7pm meeting, broadcaster NOS reported. Van Dissel estimates Omicron could …
