Highly transmissible 'XEC' Covid variant detected in Australia #ABCNews

Highly transmissible 'XEC' Covid variant detected in Australia #ABCNews

Australia has recorded its first cases of a new COVID-19 variant that has been spreading in Europe this year. The mutation is a ‘recombinant’ variant that is a mix of two previous omicron subvariants, and it’s highly transmissible as Prof Catherine Bennett from Deakin University explains.

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