New Covid Super Variant XBB15 Spreading Faster, Two Cases Reported In India

Hyderabad, Jan 2 (Maxim News): As the people have not come out with the BF7 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which is driving the Covid-19 wave in China, a super variant XBB15 has now surfaced with the potential to become a globally dominant variant in the coming months, leading to possibly another round of Covid infections among people.

At present, the XBB15 variant of SARS-CoV-2 is behind a wave of Covid infections in multiple cities in the United States and already two cases of this mutation, one each from Gujarat and Maharashtra have been reported in India.

due to XBB15’s huge potential to infect persons who already have gained immunity through vaccines. The XBB15 is being described as the most immunity-evasive escape variant to date and is apparently spreading much faster than earlier variants, causing an increase in hospitalizations in multiple cities in the US.

Expert geneticists who have been tracking Omicron mutations said that compared to BF 7 of China, right now the XBB15 is the worst variant in the world. said, the well-known epidemiologist and health economist Dr. Eric Feigl-ding on Twitter, said.

The consortium of genome sequencing laboratories in India (INSACOG) has already urged people to follow Covid appropriate behavior and said, “the community need not panic and adherence to corona-appropriate behaviors is recommended in the light of ongoing festivities.

The XBB variant, which is a recombinant (fusion) of two different BA2 variants, was first reported in India. Later, it appears that the XBB variant in New York has further evolved into the XBB15 Covid mutation. Of all the variants in the current mix, XBB.15 has the most growth advantage, geneticists worldwide believe. (Maxim News)

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