The National Public Health Institute (INSP) informed on Tuesday that in the February 6-12 week, Romania reported 149 cases of of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron, including 46 variants of concern and 103 variants of interest, told Agerpres.
Among the 103 variants of interest, there were 25 BA.2.75 sub-variant instances confirmed, 68 BQ.1 and four XBB 1.5.
To date, 113 cases of BA.2.75 sub-variant have been confirmed, as well as 305 BQ.1 sub-variant cases, 11 XBB sub-variant and eight XBB 1.5 sub-variant cases.
As of January 29, 9,974 Omicron cases were confirmed in Romania, with the BA.2 sub-variant detected in 3,058 (31%) cases.
The BA.5 sub-variant was detected in 3,476 cases (35%).
INSP shows that, until February 12, a number of 18,746 sequencings were reported to CNSCBT.
The 149 sequencings last week were reported by the "Cantacuzino" Institute (64) and the "Matei Bals" Institute (45) and the INSP (40).
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