The sub-variant is also spreading through Europe.
Willis-Knighton, Willis-Knighton LSU Health Shreveport has confirmed a new variant of COVID in Northwest Louisiana.
Two years into the pandemic, a mutated version of the , known as BA.
And it caused 58% of reported infections in the New York region.
Omicron is more transmissible than , the variant that became globally dominant in the middle of last year, and the new subvariant is especially infectious.
The state's health department confirmed on Friday afternoon the BA.