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According to Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, Co-chairman of the National IMA Covid task force, XBB.1.5 is an upgraded version of XBB, a recombinant sub-lineage of Omicron that was found a few months ago in multiple countries like Singapore and later in India.
This week's CDC data shows three Omicron subvariants account for 20% of genetically sequenced COVID-19 cases. It was 17.5% last week.
Official figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a 25 percent rise in infection rate over one week.
Lifting COVID safety measures can only inflame an already raging class struggle.
The strain has two mutations that make it even more adept at locking on to human cells.