‘Cigarra’: What Do We Know About the New Covid Variant that Has up to 70 Mutations?

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‘Cigarra’, the new variant of COVID-19, is monitored by experts because of its ability to mutation, while observing the current impact on the first infected patients.This subvariate, called BA.3.2, derives from omycron, a strain that emerged at the end of 2021 and was the cause of one of the largest outbreaks of contagion since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.Unlike its predecessor, ‘cigarra’ presents multiple genetic changes, so it worries …

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The WHO catalogues this subline of Ómicron at a “low level of risk”; until this March 29 cases have not been reported in Mexico. Alma Hidalgo / OEM-Report The World Health Organization (WHO), from February to March, has monitored four variants of the Covid – 19, including the so-called BA. 3.2, which is a subline of Ómicron and is also known as “Cicada” in English, that is, “Cigarra” in Spanish. This variant was first documented in November 2025…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keep under surveillance the variant BA.3.2 of the COVID-19, nicknamed "Cigarra", which marks a new lineage. The new variant of COVID-19 spreads in 23 countries, as well as in 25 states of the United States, and according to American specialists marks "a new lineage", that is to say it is quite different from the other versions of the virus that can cause…