Health officials in Ireland have confirmed the spread of the new Covid variant XEC. The HSE advises anyone with symptoms to stay at home and avoid contact with others
Health officials have published an update on Covid in Ireland, confirming that new variant XEC is spreading in Ireland.
Last week, Ireland's Health Protection Surveillance Centre reported that the XEC stain accounted for 7.1% of all officially recorded cases over the past five weeks. It said: "Emerging lineage XEC accounted for 7.1% of sequences in the last five week period."Read more:HSE issue measles alert for passengers on bus from Dublin Airport as case identified
"Current information doesn't suggest we should be more concerned about this variant but we are monitoring this closely. The most important thing to do is to get your vaccination as soon as possible if you're eligible." Dr Bruno Silvester Lopes, a lecturer in microbiology at Teesside University told Cosmopolitan: "The symptoms linked to XEC resemble those of earlier Covid variants such as fever, sore throat, cough, loss of sense of smell, reduced appetite and body aches."
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