Emergence of omicron variant's sublineages BA.4 and BA.5: risks assessment and possible countermeasures

New Microbes New Infect. 2022 Jun 17:48:100997. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2022.100997. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Manish Dhawan^{1

2}, AbdulRahman A Saied^{3

4}, Talha Bin Emran⁵, Om Prakash Choudhary⁶

¹ Department of Microbiology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 141004, India.
² Trafford College, Altrincham, Manchester WA14 5PQ, UK.
³ National Food Safety Authority (NFSA), Aswan Branch, Aswan 81511, Egypt.
⁴ Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Aswan Office, Aswan 81511, Egypt.
⁵ Department of Pharmacy, BGC Trust University Bangladesh, Chittagong, 4381, Bangladesh.
⁶ Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology, College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Central Agricultural University (I), Selesih, Aizawl, 796015, Mizoram, India.

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Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-cov-2; omicron; sublineages; vaccines; variants of concern (VOCs).