Tokyo "BA.2" "It seems that the first community-acquired infection in Tokyo has occurred"

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, seven people have been infected with a virus called "BA.2", which is a type of Omicron strain and has been pointed out to have even higher infectivity as a result of genome analysis at research institutes in Tokyo. It turns out that.

Two of them have not been found to have contact with people who have traveled abroad, and the city says, "It seems that the virus called" BA.2 "has been infected in the city for the first time in Tokyo."