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New ‘Super-Dooper Infectious’ Covid BS-666-GFY Variant ‘On Sale’ Now for Upcoming Australian Winter

    EXCLUSIVE: New Covid-19 variant sweeping across Australia is one of the most infectious diseases the earth has EVER seen – as renowned scientist warns EVERYONE is going to get it

    DailyMail – By Peter Vincent For Daily Mail Australia

    Published: 06:45 AEDT, 16 March 2022 | Updated: 11:15 AEDT, 16 March 2022

    • Omicron sub-variant BA.2 up to six times as contagious as original Wuhan virus
    • Daily cases surged to 30,402 in NSW on Wednesday, partly due to extra RATs
    • Your chances of catching Covid-19 are now believed to be ‘very high’ in 2022
    • Omicron usually less severe than Delta but ‘nasty’ because it evades immunity 
    • Even the triple-vaccinated will be at heightened risk of catching the new strain

    A former World Health Organisation scientist says the new BA.2 Omicron subvariant sweeping the world is one of the most infectious diseases the Earth has seen – and almost everyone will be exposed to the virus.

    While the now-dominant strain is not as deadly as previous ones, including Delta, it is up to six times more transmissible than the original strain of Covid-19, Professor Adrian Esterman told Daily Mail Australia.

    Predictions of a big surge in cases became a reality in New South Wales on Wednesday with 30,402 positive tests returned in the previous 24 hours, almost triple the number reported on Tuesday.

    The BA.2 variant is also up to 30 per cent more infectious than the initial BA.1 version of Omicron which forced the reinstitution of lockdowns at Christmas.

    ‘We think [the first] Omicron is very similar to Delta and that BA.2 is then another 25-30 per cent more contagious,’ James Wood, a public health mathematician at the University of NSW told Daily Mail Australia.

    The higher risk of contagiousness comes from the variant’s superior ability to ‘evade’ immunity – meaning even triple-vaccinated people are susceptible to catching the new strain.

    Mr Esterman, who is 73, admitted his own son argues ‘it’s no worse than the flu’.

    ‘To a certain extent, he’s right: the death rates not worse than seasonal flu,’ he said. 

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