NTAGI Chief, NK Arora said 'Not to panic for XE variant' of Omicron

Among all the variants of Omicron Variants, the XE variant seems so light and has less transmissibility but still, the exact situation of this variant is not clear because scientists including from many labs are working to study the variant.

The variant Omicron is giving many rises to new sub-variant of Coronavirus and now it comes with new mutation named as ‘XE’ variant that was firstly found in United Kingdome and now it has detected in Maharashtra and Gujrat in India.

As many scientists and lab researchers are doing their study for this XE variant, Dr. NK Arora, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) Chief said on Monday. He said it’s not a position to panic “It’s of X series like XE and others… nothing to panic about as none of these are causing serious diseases or at the moment from Indian data it doesn’t show a very rapid spread,” chairman Dr. NK Arora quoted about the virus.

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The variant detected in Gujrat is a recombinant of a variant of two Omicron strains BA-1 and BA-2, the subvariant was detected on 67 years-old men who tested positive, as told by officials. Authority is still finding some new cases for studying the nature of the XE variant.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the XE variant was first detected in the UK on January 19 and more than 600 sequences were reported and confirmed since then. Till now there is no data available to predict the transmissibility and nature of variants and more data is needed to know the mutation.

Whereas other variants showed various symptoms like fever, sore throat, scratchy throat, cough, cold, etc. The symptoms of the XE variant might differ from person to person as per their health. Vaccination status will also matter for the effectiveness of this variant.

If we see the previous record of India dealing with Coronavirus was wonderful as compared to the other countries like China and America. We have the world’s largest population and completed the largest percentage of vaccination in the country that helps people to fight with the variant.

China is fighting with Corona Virus and the situation went as worse as the financial city of China Shanghai imposed a strict lockdown and closed all the education buildings like schools and colleges and converted the study from offline mode to online mode.

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