Omicron descendant XE has ‘slight’ advantage – virologist

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Omicron descendant XE has ‘slight’ advantage – virologist

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New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa

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New Zealand is not doing enough genome sequencing of COVID-19 samples to be able to quickly detect the arrival of the new Omicron XE variant, says one expert
"I’m not too worried about it at this point...The WHO have not promoted it to a variant of concern and given it a Greek letter for good reason”