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India's first case of  Omicron's XE variant has been detected in Mumbai, civic body BMC said today.

Shashank Joshi from Maharashtra COVID-19 task force also said, "Mumbai XE variant case occurred in first week in March from an international travellor who fully recovered but Genomic data is out today. No need to panic, follow covid appropriate behavior."

A woman costumes designer working with the Mumbai film industry Bollywood has become the countrys first patient to test positive for the Covid XE variant, a BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said on Wednesday.

The Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation had earlier in the day said that "one patient is affected by 'Kappa' variant and another by 'XE' variant" based on regular testing of samples.

XE Covid-19 variant around since January, no cause of concern as of now: Experts - XE variant is a recombinant of BA.1 and BA.2, the sub-lineages of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19.

More than 600 cases of XE have been reported in the UK.

A new mutant of Covid-19 called 'XE' appears to be about ten per cent more transmissible than the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron, as per the WHO.

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