If you have heard of the COVID variant “Centaurus", and wondering what it is, don't panic immediately. It is not a new variant but a subvariant of Omicron.

The BA.2.75 sub-variant, which has been first detected in India in early May, has been nicknamed Centaurus. In India, BA.2.75is rapidly displacing the previously dominant BA.2 variant in many countries.

Apart from that, the cases have also steeply risen in the UK. So far, it has been detected in 10 other countries, including the UK, US, Australia, Germany and Canada.

Experts noted that BA.2.75, which likely evolved from BA.2, contains extra mutations that might be concerning. “This could mean that it has had the chance to evolve an advantage over an already successful virus lineage, said Dr Stephen Griffin, a virologist at the University of Leeds, as reported by The Gaurdian. “It’s not so much the exact mutations, more the number/combination," said Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, adding, “It’s hard to predict the effect of that many mutations appearing together – it gives the virus a bit of a ‘wildcard’ property where the sum of the parts could be worse than the parts individually." WHO said that till now only a limited number of sequences are available to analyze. “There are about 200 sequences available from about 14 countries.

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Centaurus is the nickname of a new coronavirus subvariant that has been detected in around 10 countries, including the UK.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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