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The new "XEC" COVID-19 variant spreading rapidly in Europe has arrived in the US. ... Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. ... at a fast rate right now ...
Delta (B.617.2) First identified in India in late 2020, the delta variant soon spread across the globe. It became the dominant variant of SARS-CoV-2 until the emergence of omicron in December 2021.
The SARS-CoV-2 Kappa variant is also known as lineage B.1.617.1 and was first detected in India in December 2020. [192] By the end of March 2021, the Kappa sub-variant accounted for more than half of the sequences being submitted from India. [193] On 1 April 2021, it was designated a Variant Under Investigation (VUI-21APR-01) by Public Health ...
The Eta variant is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.The Eta variant or lineage B.1.525, also called VUI-21FEB-03 (previously VUI-202102/03) by Public Health England (PHE) and formerly known as UK1188, 21D or 20A/S:484K, does not carry the same N501Y mutation found in Alpha, Beta and Gamma, but carries the same E484K-mutation as found in the Gamma, Zeta, and Beta variants ...
The highly mutated new Covid variant Pirola has seen cases spike in the UK promoting the UK government to bring forward autumn jabs.. Pirola, or BA.2.86, is the latest Omicron strain to appear ...
On 15 December 2021, Jenny Harries, head of the UK Health Security Agency, told a parliamentary committee that the doubling time of COVID-19 in most regions of the UK was now less than two days despite the country's high vaccination rate. She said that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is "probably the most significant threat since the start of ...
WHO reports that given community transmission the number of cases doubles every 1.5 to three days. The variant is now in 89 counties, and its severity profile remains unknown. [126] Seven to ten percent of new confirmed coronavirus cases in France are suspected to be of the Omicron variant and the travel ban on the UK comes into force. [127]
The World Health Organization has named the new South African COVID-19 variant after the Greek letter omicron, a clear indication experts believe the mutated virus could prove to be a serious ...