While COVID-19 cases are declining globally, a new Omicron variant has appeared and is “one to watch,” a World Health Organization official says.
April 1, 2023 -- news conference“At the present time there’s only about 800 sequences of XBB.1.16 from 22 countries,” she said. “Most of the sequences are from India and in India, XBB.1.16 has replaced the other variants that are in circulation. So, this is one to watch. It has been in circulation for a few months.”
According to Kerkhove, XBB.1.16 is similar to XBB.1.5 but has an additional mutational mutation in the spike protein. In lab studies, XBB.1.16 has proven more infectious than XBB.1.5, she said, but more severe illness hasn’t been found in people actually infected with the new variant. “So far reports do not indicate a rise in hospitalizations, ICU admissions, or deaths due to XBB.1.16. Further, there are currently no reported laboratory studies on markers of disease severity for XBB.1.16,” said WHO’s weekly COVID update.
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