- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it was tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19.
- The lineage is named BA.2.86 and has been detected in the United States, Denmark and Israel, the CDC said in a post on messaging platform X, formerly called Twitter.
- “As we learn more about BA.2.86, CDC’s advice on protecting yourself from COVID-19 remains the same,” the agency said.
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CDC Tracking Highly Mutated New COVID Variant In 3 Countries, Including US
FILE - This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. There’s less risk of getting long COVID in the omicron era than in the pandemic’s earlier waves, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help scientists better understand the mysterious condition, published in JAMA on Thursday, May 25, 2023. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)
