WHO says new Covid Variant “XE” found in UK, says it's more transmissible than Omicron

According to the World Health Organization’s latest report, A new Covid variant has been found in the UK. The mutant is named XE, and the reports say that this strain is more transmissible than any strain of the Covid Virus so far. The WHO further added that “XE is a recombinant that is a mutation of BA '1 and BA.2 Omicron strains.” In a paper published in the British Medical Journal, Recombinant mutations emerge when a patient is infected by multiple variants of Covid. The variants mix up their genetic material during replication and form a new mutation.

The World Health Organization has said that the new mutation XE appears to be 10 percent more transmissible than the Omicron variant of Covid. Britain's health agency has mentioned that the XE variant was first detected on January 19, and till now 637 cases of the new variant have been reported.

Apart from the UK, US and China have also reported an increment in the Covid Numbers. China reported nearly 104,000 domestic Covid infections in March, with 90 percent of the recent cases found in Shanghai or northeastern Jilin province.