Rising XBB cases coincides with festive holiday travel for millions of Americans. Read more at straitstimes.com.
jumped to 18 per cent in national dominance and makes up more than 50 per cent of Covid-19 cases in the Northeast, coinciding with holiday travel for millions of Americans.
XBB is a subvariant of the BA.5 variant that is targeted in the updated vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, which the US government has authorised as booster shots. BA.5 now represents just a small fraction of cases, having been overtaken by its offshoots, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, which still remain the dominant variants but are on the decline.
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