WHO Says Covid Variant XBB.1.5 May Be Driving Cases

Thu Jan 12 2023
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Monitoring Desk

GENEVA: The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the XBB.1.5 sub-variant of Covid-19 may be spurring more cases.

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WHO Says Covid Variant XBB.1.5 May Be Driving Cases

The World Health Body said that based on its characteristics and early growth rate estimates, the new variant may contribute to increases in the number of cases.

However, WHO said that it has only “low confidence” in the assessment as the current data was coming from the US only, which has given more than 80 percent of sequences.

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