New Covid Variant: BA.5 New corona variant floating in the air.Vaccine, antibodies all neutralized!

The speed of the spread of the corona virus is no longer the same as before, but the danger has not gone anywhere. Vaccines are available in most countries and infection has slowed down but there is no room for negligence. The devastation caused by the Delta variant in India and other countries is still not fully healed. That is why whenever people get to hear about the ‘new variant’, people get nervous again. However, Omicron and its sub-variants that followed Delta are not as contagious. But we need to be careful. Now that the summer season is at its peak, a new variant of Corona has started growing slowly. Let us know whether we need to be afraid of this while taking precautionsIt is a sub-variant of Omicron which is called BA.5. It is creating massive stir as it is far more developed than other Omicron variants. Until now, being infected with Omicron meant developing antibodies in your body that could protect you from getting re-infected for a few months. But BA.5 is evading our protection against the older variants. This means that the risk of re-infection is increasing, even among those who have recently been infected and those who have been vaccinated.

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Vaccines and antibodies also neutralize
Business Insider has written in its report, Yes, BA.5 spreads easily as compared to other variants. And it can feel like it’s spread everywhere, infecting anyone, whether you’ve been vaccinated, got a booster shot, or have been infected with Covid. America’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that if you were infected with BA.1, you really don’t have very good protection from BA.5.

How dangerous is the new variant
How dangerous is this variant? ‘I can’t answer that,’ said Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and editor of public health at Kaiser Health News. He said that the risk depends on things like your vaccination status, your age, your health, your occupation and your lifestyle. Dr. Preeti Malani, an infectious disease physician at the University of Michigan, has rated its risk.

Vaccination is very important
He expressed ‘mild concern’ over the new version and gave it a ‘3 out of 10 risk rating’. Malani said that BA.5 is present everywhere and if you haven’t caught it yet, there are strong chances that you can come. But if your vaccine status is up to date, the illness may be mild without any serious consequences.