Covid-19: What is the new XE variant? - RNZ

The Ministry of Health is heeding a WHO warning about wider surveillance needed to detect a new Covid-19 recombinant. Here's what we know.

A new hybrid variant, dubbed XE, is a combination of the highly transmissible BA1 and BA2 Omicron variants. A machine sorts positive Covid-19 samples for genome testing. Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas It … [+2683 chars]

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