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Three people who returned from abroad diagnosed with COVID BA.2.75 variant
Three people who returned from abroad have been confirmed as carriers of the new BA.2.75 subvariant of coronavirus, the Health Ministry says.
One returned from India and the other two from France.
The variant is thought to be highly contagious, though it is not clear whether it is more dangerous than previous mutations.