The R0 number is the average number of people that ... Because “the cases that cause them are as mild as the original Omicron.” According to official estimates, the BA.2 subvariate currently ...

Omicron has been classed as a "variant of concern". Early evidence suggests it has a heightened re-infection risk. The heavily mutated variant was detected in South Africa earlier this month and ...

Whereas, the R0 value of the original strain, that emerged in 2019-20, was 3.0-3.3. The BA.5 strain of Omicron also had the same R0 value of 18.6. “There is a quicker infection rate of this ...

1 sub-variant of Omicron. This is now the fifth iteration ... While numbers vary, a conservative estimate of the reproduction number (R0 – how many people will one person will go on to infect ...