BREAKING WHO Covid warning: New mutant 'XE' Omicron variant could be most transmissible yet
variant, BA.1 and BA.2, which spread across the world when it first became a variant of concern. According to reports, the new variant is 10 percent more transmissible than the BA.2 subvariant, which is already the most contagious.According to the WHO, BA.2, which is a subvariant of the Omicron strain, is the most dominant strain of the virus, being 86 percent of all sequenced cases attributed to it.
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