The Ministry of Health shows the emergence of two cases of the hidden mutation (BA.2) in Jordan

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2022/01/31

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<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>Arab Weather</strong> - Adviser to the Prime Minister for Health Affairs and the Corona file, Dr. Adel Al-Balbisi, confirmed that the sub-mutant from Omicron (BA.2), from which two injuries were recorded in Jordan today, Monday, is not a new or different mutant.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Al-Belbisi explained to Al-Wakeel News that (BA.2) and (BA.1) are two types of Omicron mutant, and they do not differ in terms of effect, symptoms and speed of spread.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He pointed out that the two types are spread in more than 60 countries around the world, but in Jordan today, two cases of type (BA.2) were recorded.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Al-Belbisi noted that there is no cause for concern of this kind, stressing that it is not a mutated or a new disease.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Biolab Medical Laboratory announced the monitoring of the first two confirmed cases in Jordan and the Arab world of the sub-mutant of Omicron (BA.2), which is known as the &quot;hidden mutant&quot;, which is called that due to the inability of traditional PCR tests to distinguish between it and the &quot;delta&quot; mutant.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>For more: <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%AF-%D8%A3%D9%88... the first cases of the &quot;hidden mutant&quot; from Omicron in Jordan and the Arab world</a></strong></p>

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