A a medical worker takes a nasal swab sample from a man to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Thai-Japanese Stadium, also known as the Bangkok Youth Center, in Bangkok in this file photo from April 2021. - AFP
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Fourteen people in Thailand have been infected with the Omicron subvariant BA.2, with one dying, Department of Medical Sciences director-general Dr Supphakit Siriluck reported on Wednesday (Jan 26).
Omicron BA.2 has been nicknamed the "stealth variant" due to difficulties in comparing it with the Delta variant using the PCR method.
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