Emergence and geographic dominance of Omicron subvariants XBB/XBB.1.5 and BF.7 - the public health challenges

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research, VG-CARE, Hanoi, Vietnam; Faculty of Medicine, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam. Electronic address: t.velavan@uni-tuebingen.de.
• ² Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
• ³ Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon.
• ⁴ Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; International Society for Infectious Diseases.
• ⁵ Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research, VG-CARE, Hanoi, Vietnam; Faculty of Medicine, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam.