“The NB.1.8.1 variant (Nimbus) causes four distinguished symptoms as follows:
“Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 ‘Nimbus’, and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = ‘Stratus’.
Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus. 🧵
NB.1.8.1 is now here in the U.S.:
"Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year, after a "significant increase" in reported emergency room visits and hospitalizations driven by COVID-19."
“A new Covid-19 subvariant named XEC is spreading rapidly across Europe, having first been detected in Germany.”
New Covid Variant XEC Spreading Rapidly Across Continents
A new Covid variant is spreading rapidly and has caught the attention of the research world, 111 samples have already been reported from 15 countries, across three different continents.
“An even more contagious COVID strain is ‘just getting started’ amid California wave Doctors and scientists are keeping an eye on yet another coronavirus subvariant — XEC — that could surpass the latest hyperinfectious strain.”
