`XE variant slightly tuned up version of Omicron`: Covid task force co-chairman https://ift.tt/5xJTOYC

Jayadevan said the XE variant is the combination of BA.1 and BA.2 where X stands for Recombinant Type and E is the sequence of its discovery. Mutation and recombination are techniques used by viruses to become fitter.

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