A new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in countries like India and the World Health Organisation is following this, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

“On Covid-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the past two weeks. Four out of six of the WHO sub-regions saw cases increase in the last week,” Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing Wednesday. WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said in a video on Twitter there has been emergence of a sub-variant being called the BA.2.75 “first reported from India and then from about 10 other countries.”