Omicron XE Ireland

Health officials are now voicing their concern over a new strain of Omicron which is a mix of the BA.1 and BA.2 variants.

A new subvariant of Covid-19, dubbed Omicron XE, has been confirmed in at least one case in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). It follows after a number of ...

Public health officials have confirmed that a small number of cases of the new Covid strain have been detected here.

A total of 1179 cases of the new new Covid-19 variant Omicron XE have been confirmed in the UK so far and appears to have evolved after the two strains ...

So even though it will most likely become dominant it hopefully won’t cause any significant problems.” In a report the World Health Organisation said the XE recombinant was first detected in the UK on 19 January and said early tests showed it could be more transmissible. Public health officials say the “recombinant” variant - which is a combination of Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 sub-variants - looks to be more contagious.

A NEW Omicron variant is “likely to become the dominant strain”, an expert has said.Already 1179 cases of the XE Covid strain have been detected.

XE is one of four new Covid variants that have been spotted in the UK and Europe that health chiefs are watching closely. There was evidence that XE was in circulation among England’s population, with most cases in London and the East and South East. XE is a combination of the Omicron strains BA.1, which was dominant over Christmas, and the currently dominant BA.2. XE is known as a recombinant variant, which is when the genetics of two strains jumble together to create a new version. Already 1,179 cases of the XE Covid strain have been detected in the UK since January. “The early signs are that it is going to be very transmissible so it will probably become the dominant strain again,” said Dr Alan Stout, chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee in Northern Ireland, according to the Independent.

COVID: New 'dominant' variant detected in the UK. The variant is said to be more contagious than Omicron. A NEW Covid variant has been detected in the UK.

So even though it will most likely become dominant it hopefully won’t cause any significant problems.” COVID: New ‘dominant’ variant detected in the UK. COVID: New ‘dominant’ variant detected in the UK

THE new Covid-19 Omicron variant has been detected in Ireland with experts logging the strain's symptoms.It comes as the new variant of the virus is a.

"There is a suggestion from data in the UK, in the UK they've had over 1,000 cases of this XE variant, and there's a suggestion that it may be more transmissible than BA.2 by about 10 or 20 per cent." "So what you have with Omicron XE is that bits of the BA.1 virus and a bit of the BA.2 to make up the XE, and the spike protein is from the BA.2 version and some of the internal proteins are from BA.1. In the UK, over 1,200 cases of the XE variant have been recorded, while in Northern Ireland, a "small number" of cases of the new variant have been discovered.

Covid 19 vaccines are said to be working against the new strain of the virus and are preventing severe disease, according to Professor Luke O'Neill.

"But come September, October there's bound to be a surge because we're back indoors again. "You know an immune system can recognise the same cards, basically. The Department of Health has said that there has been one case of the XE variant in Ireland, with it first being noted on April 8th but believed to be a travel-associated case with a specimen date in February 2022.

Prof O'Neill said Pan-Coronavirus vaccine could be a reality before the end of the year.

Some of them are even better than the current vaccines. The good news is, though, that the immune system is still holding up to stop us getting severe disease." "That is the real dream - several of those are in development, there is a huge amount of effort going in to try and make them," Prof O'Neill said.

One case of Omicron XE, a new 'hybrid' strain of the BA.1 and BA.2 variants, has been reported in Ireland to date.

Some of them are even better than the current vaccines. "So far the worry would be a new deck of cards might emerge, or a different kind of suit of cards might emerge, and then we might be in more trouble, but for the moment it's the same deck of cards being reshuffled basically." "There is a huge amount of effort going in to try and make them," he said. "What is happening is that the virus is changing in to a much more transmissible form," Prof O'Neill outlined. "The main thing is though it's mainly like BA.2 and that means it isn't causing a huge amount of concern because our immune system is holding up against BA.2 and Omicron XE seems to be very similar. In Northern Ireland, a "small number" of cases of the new variant have also been discovered.