The new crown variant KP.2 has spread in longest countries, and China Disease Control: China has not yet monitored

Sina Financial News From May 7th to 13th, from a global perspective, a new crown variant named KP.2 is spreading, and in early May this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the KP.2 subvariant as a variant under surveillance. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19, said that KP.2 is a descendant lineage of JN.1, which is the dominant strain worldwide, and that there are additional mutations in the KP.2 spike protein. There are other emerging variants, JN.1 is constantly evolving, and we will continue to closely monitor the evolution of the virus. According to the latest “National Situation of Novel Coronavirus Infection in April 2023” released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, no KP.2 variant has been found in China. According to the report, from April 1 to April 30, 2024, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported a total of 11,299 local cases of the effective genome of the new coronavirus, all of which are Omicron variants. The main circulating strains were JN.1 series variants, and the top three strains were JN.1, JN.1.4 and JN.1.16, respectively.