ECDC de-escalates 3 COVID-19 lineages from variants of concern list


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  • Saturday, 04 Mar 2023

STOCKHOLM, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) de-escalated on Friday three COVID-19 lineages from its list of variants of concern (VOC).

Variants BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 were de-escalated "as these parental lineages are no longer circulating."

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