On 18 August 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified BA.2.86 as a ‘variant under monitoring (VUM)’ after the report of hyper-mutated BA.2.86 subvariant from multiple countries. The first case was detected in Denmark in a specimen collected on 24 July 2023. As of 01 September 2023, the BA.2.86 sub-variant was reported from five countries: Denmark (4 cases), United States (3), South Africa (3), Israel (1), and the United Kingdom (1).
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