Covid live: 'WHO studying virulence of XE variant'

Amid a seeming disagreement between the Maharashtra government and the Centre on whether or not a case reported in Mumbai was of the highly transmissible XE variant or not, a note given by the state government said, “Mumbai has a probable XE case. ” The XE variant is a combination of the BA. 1 and BA. 2 strains of Omicron and is found to be responsible for enhanced viral transmission in countries such as the UK. Stay with TOI for all updates:

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