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BA.1
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ba1 Ba1
Translingual
mul Etymology needs some work, and the layout is a mess.
Q110497086
Alternative forms
mul BA1 BA 1 BA-1 B-A-1 B A 1 B.A.1
Etymology
From being being assigned mul B.1.1.529.1 when the second variant occurred, and then shortened. Pango notation does not officially support 4 sublevels, leading to a need to renumber "B.1.1.529.1", thus shortened to a new base "BA" for "B.1.1.529" and ".1" becoming "BA.1"
Proper noun
mul proper noun
mul Q110497086 mul Types of coronaviruses mul virus The first en Omicron variant. A highly transmissible though milder variant of the mul SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus genus, which causes mul COVID-19; first detected in 2021 in en South Africa and en Botswana.
Synonyms
mul B.1.1.529.1
Hypernyms
mul B.1.1.529
Coordinate terms
mul XE BA.2 BA.3 BA.4 BA.5
Related terms
mul BA.2 BA.3 BA.4 BA.5 B.1.1.529.1 B.1.1.529.2 B.1.1.529.3 B.1.1.529.4 B.1.1.529.5 B.1.1.529