Coronavirus: ‘Stealth Omicron’ more infectious than original strain, Danish study shows

A sub-variant of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus strain is even more infectious than the original version, according to a Danish study published on Monday.Sub-variant BA.2 – also called “stealth Omicron” – was detected earlier this year and has displaced the first Omicron variant, known as BA.1, as the dominant strain in Denmark.A person infected with BA.2 has a 39 per cent chance of transmitting the virus to someone else in their household within a week, compared to a 29 per cent…

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