India / Corona Returns? Second case of XE variant in Santa Cruz, third case in the country

According to an India Today report, the BMC on Saturday confirmed that it has received a confirmed case of a new sub-variant of the coronavirus, XE. According to the information received, this variant has been confirmed in a 67-year-old resident of Santa Cruz city. It is being told that this person has taken both the vaccines of Corona.

Mumbai : Corona's new sub-variant XE has been knocked in the country after Maharashtra in Gujarat. The second case of this dangerous variant of Omicron has been found in Mumbai. With this, there have been a total of three cases of XE variant in the country. Although the Union Health Ministry had feared disturbances regarding the first case, but on Saturday, the civic body BMC of Mumbai city has confirmed that the case of this new variant has been confirmed in Mumbai.

According to an India Today report, the BMC on Saturday confirmed that it has received a confirmed case of a new sub-variant of the coronavirus, XE. According to the information received, this variant has been confirmed in a 67-year-old resident of Santa Cruz city. It is being told that this person has taken both the vaccines of Corona.

Let us inform that the World Health Organization has described this new sub-variant of Corona as a variant of Omicron, which is 10 times more infectious.

The man had gone to Vadodara on March 11

According to the BMC, the man had gone to Vadodara on March 11 and his health deteriorated after a meeting at the hotel. After which he got the corona test done and the report turned out to be positive. However, when he did not see the symptoms of corona, he went back to Mumbai. Now when his corona test sample was screened, the XE variant has been confirmed in the report.

BMC has said that this person has received both doses of corona vaccine and is completely healthy.