Video / NZ HeraldThe Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12.1 has been discovered in the community as 8150 new cases of Covid-19 were announced today. "We are today reporting our first case of the Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 in a community case, without a clear link to the border, in Hawke's Bay from a test result returned on 10 May 2022. "This Omicron subvariant is prevalent in the USA and has been detected at our border for many weeks - there have been 29 imported cases reported since April, so its movement into the community is not unexpected." Meanwhile, the Omicron BA.4 and/or BA.5 subvariants have been detected in wastewater samples at Rosedale on Auckland's North Shore and in Gisborne. The vast majority of recently sequenced cases in New Zealand continued to be of the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant with small number of cases with the BA.1 sub-variant.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 25, 2022 05:59 UTC