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Covid 4th wave scare: Is Omicron XE variant really not lethal? - Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said on Saturday that the XE sub-variant of Covid-19 is not lethal and the infected person is asymptomatic.

XE Variant: The fourth wave of COVID-19 pandemic is likely to hit around June and may peak around August 2022, as per reports.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has cautioned that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over. "We're seeing 1.5 million new cases each day. Large outbreaks are spreading in Asia. A new wave is sweeping across Europe," Guterres said.

Here’s what Health Ministry said after detection of XE variant of Covid in Mumbai - On April 6, BMC announced it has detected Indias first case of XE infection in Mumbai.

The XE variant is a mutation of the BA.1 and BA.2 Omicron strains, referred to as a "recombinant". As per the initial studies, the XE variant has a growth rate of 9.8 percent over that of BA.2, also known as the stealth variant because of its ability to evade detection.

Covid 4th wave: Here’s what Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium says about XE variant cases - A case of XE variant was detected in Gujarat, which was Confirmed by the Additional Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Health in Gujarat.

Gujarat reported its first case of the XE variant after a man from Mumbai tested positive for COVID-19 during his visit to Vadodara, a state official said.

Is booster dose effective against the Covid XE variant? - The new XE variant of Covid-19 was first detected in the United Kingdom and is said to be much more transmissible than any other strain of the virus.

The patient in Gujarat had tested positive for COVID-19 on March 13 and had recovered in a week.