Rui Amaral Mendes, adjunct professor of oral and maxillofacial medicine at ϳԹ School of Dental Medicine, wrote a letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal in which he addressed the need for optimized genome surveillance of Omicron in order to track the new COVID-19 sub-variant, BA.2.
Mendes’ letter draws from an article he co-authored,,” that was published by the British Medical Journal on March 11.