The Netherlands announced on Wednesday it has become the latest country to detect a case of the COVID-19 Omicron subvariant BA.2.75, as experts expressed concern about the strain's rapid spread.
The subvariant, nicknamed"Centaurus", first emerged in India in May and has since spread to around 10 countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Australia. FILE PHOTO
It "has also now been identified in the Netherlands," the Dutch National Institute of Public Health said in a statement. "This sub-variant seems to have a few mutations on the receptor binding domain of the spike protein... so we have to watch that," she said in a tweeted video. "It seems to be becoming the dominant strain in India -- the question is will it become the dominant strain all over the world?"
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