Should India Free Covid-19 Ban So Early ? WHO Reports About A New Covid-19 Variant ‘XE’ : know in detail
(The Quiver Bureau) : India viewing upon the declining covid-19 cases has announced to free all Covid-19 restrictions from the country. The Maharashtra government has already issued an order on late Thursday night , withdrawn the Covid-19 restrictions during a state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Is right step taken by India to free all covid-19 restrictions so early? well a statement of The World health Organisation challenges this step of India
Amid all these, The World health Organisation(WHO) has issued a shocking about a new Covid-19 variant. The new Covid-19 mutant strain, called XE , is believed to be a hybrid strain of two Omicron sub-variants — BA.1 and BA.2.
Presently , small fraction of this new variant infection cases are detected in the world . In an earlier released report by WHO, The XE recombinant got first detected in the United Kingdom on January 19 and less than 600 sequences have been reported and confirmed .
Early studies show that the XE strain has a growth rate advantage of 10 per cent as compared to the BA.2 sub-variant which was until now the most contagious known strain of Covid-19. The BA.2 sub-variant is spreading across the world, now accounting for a majority of cases in the US.
According to a report of WHO ,“Early-day estimates indicate a community growth rate advantage of 10 per cent as compared to BA.2, however, this finding requires further confirmation.”
According to Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser of Britain’s Health Security Agency (HSA), there is not enough evidence available to draw conclusions about XE’s transmissibility, severity and also effectiveness of vaccines.
However , WHO said that it will continue to monitor and assess the public health risk related to XE and will share updates as further evidence becomes available. The WHO added that it is also monitoring another recombinant variant known as XD, which is a hybrid of Delta and Omicron. It has been found mostly in France, Denmark and Belgium.
