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SARS-CoV-2 Eris variant was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 18 August 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BF.7 variant was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 14 February 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Section sizes

Section size for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (45 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	10,476	10,476
Classification	4,163	4,163
History	4,372	46,203
Origin hypotheses	7,667	7,667
Spread	34,164	34,164
Reactions	17	23,065
Vaccine producers	5,655	5,655
World Health Organization	4,477	4,477
International response	12,916	12,916
Biology	178	7,580
Mutations	7,402	7,402
Subvariants	6,637	51,007
BA.2	2,155	28,523
Spread	15,098	15,098
XE	657	657
BA.2.12	808	808
BA.2.75 and BA.2.75.2	1,620	8,655
XBB and XBB.1	4,777	4,777
EG.5 and EG.5.1	2,258	2,258
HV.1	1,096	1,096
BA.2.86	54	54
BA.4 and BA.5	11,766	15,668
BQ.1 and BQ.1.1	3,902	3,902
Later subvariants	179	179
Transmission	286	10,268
In humans	8,184	8,184
In non-human animals	619	619
Surfaces	1,179	1,179
Vaccine effectiveness	11,830	16,979
BA.1 and BA.2	1,635	1,635
BA.4 and BA.5	2,761	3,514
BQ.1 and BQ.1.1	753	753
Vaccine adjustments	5,030	5,030
Signs and symptoms	4,611	4,611
Virulence	3,887	3,887
Diagnosis	3,734	10,734
PCR testing	2,554	7,000
BA.1 and BA.2 differences	4,446	4,446
Treatment	5,865	5,865
Epidemiology	22,506	22,567
Reported cases	61	61
See also	773	773
Notes	26	26
References	30	30
External links	1,283	1,283
Total	224,547	224,547

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See Talk:Variants of SARS-CoV-2#Refactoring notes. For new subvariants for 2023 and beyond, you will need probably need to add them to Variants of SARS-CoV-2#Sublineages by year until further notice.⸺(Random)staplers 21:25, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]