New COVID-19 BA.2.86 strain highly mutated compared to 'Eris': WHO
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The newly classified BA.2.86 sub-variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is "highly mutated" compared to the original strain and the newly identified EG.5 or "Eris" strain, the WHO said. However, the world body maintained that it needed more data to understand the BA.2.86 variant completely. The WHO further said that it is closely monitoring the sub-variant of COVID-19 and classified it as a "variant under monitoring" due to the large-scale mutations the virus underwent.