A new subtype of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has been found near Shanghai, where residents are currently under a lockdown. The new iteration of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus was reported by municipal authorities in Suzhou, a city that borders Shanghai, on April 2. The strain was isolated from a local infected patient with the surname Yang on March 28. Municipal officials said the isolated virus had evolved from the BA.1.1 branch of the Omicron variant. What’s more, the subtype did not match other COVID-19 variants already found in China, nor those found in the public virus tracking database GISAID. Meanwhile, health officials in Dalian, a port city in northeastern China’s Liaoning Province, also found a new subtype from a local infected patient on April 1, according to China’s state-run media. The strain was said to not match any CCP virus found in China and had evolved from …