New Delhi: Amidst the deteriorating pace of corona epidemic across the country, Mumbai's civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday (April 6, 2022) claimed that a case of new XE variant of corona virus has been registered in the city. has gone. At the same time, the Union Health Ministry has categorically denied the claim of finding a case of XE variant in Mumbai. According to sources, the genomic experts of INSACOG have found that this variant is completely different from the genomic picture of the XE variant.
However, BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh claimed that 376 samples were tested in the laboratory during genomic sequencing at BMC's Kasturba Hospital and the National Institute of Virology in Pune. Out of this, 230 samples were from the people of Mumbai. Omicron has been found in 228 out of 230 samples, while one sample has a kappa variant and one patient has an XE variant. BMC said that out of 230 corona infected, 21 people had to be admitted to the hospital. Among the infected, there are 9 patients who had taken both doses of the vaccine, while there are 12 patients who have not been vaccinated.
It is being told that the new mutant variant XE of Corona can be about 10 percent more infectious than Omicron's sub variant BA.2. XE is a recombinant strain of Omicron's two sublineages BA.1 and BA.2. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also expressed concern about this.
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