A new Covid variant called ‘Stratus’ has risen to dominance in the UK, with experts who warn that it could generate a wave of new infections.
Stratus – Scientifically known as XFG – is considered more contagious than previous Covid tribes as a result of mutations that help to avoid the immune system.
Now, data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are seeing that Stratus has now become the dominant Covid tribe in England.
The variant went around 10 percent of all COVID cases of all COVID cases in May, three weeks later mid-June.
Stratus – a descendant of the already super virulent Omicron – is what is known as a Frankenstein or ‘recombinant’ tribe.
This means that it came forward when a person was infected in one go with two Covid strains, which then became a new hybrid variant.
Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, said MailOnline both two tribes of Stratus – the original XFG and Spin – called XFG.3 – are ‘quickly spread’.
“The increased competitiveness of XFG and XFG.3 is probably due to new Spike mutations that are better able to avoid the immune response,” he said.
Stratus – technically called XFG – is thought that it is more infective than previous Covid strains due to mutations that have been developed that help avoid the immune system. Stock image
‘Given that the immunity for COVID in the population is decreasing due to a decrease in the absorption of the Spring Booster JAB and the reduction of COVID infections in recent months, more people will be susceptible to infection with XFG and XFG.3.
“This can lead to a new wave of infections, but it is difficult to predict the size of this wave.”
He added that there is currently no evidence that Stratus causes more serious illness and that getting a Covid vaccine ‘very likely’ was protection against serious illness and hospitalization.
The rise of Stratus only comes a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) de Stam explained a ‘variant under monitoring’.
This designation means that health authorities around the world have been asked to follow the variant because of the increasing spread in different countries and the potential implications for public health.
While assessing the general risk of Stratus as ‘low’, said proof that the variant had a considerable growth metal compared to other tribes, which are now good for 22 percent of the cases that are registered worldwide.
Nimbus – Another new Covid variant also tipped to stimulate a wave of new infections – has also risen in recent weeks.
According to UKHSA data, that tribe went from only 2 percent of the cases in April to 17 percent in June.
Nimbus symptoms do not seem to differ from other Covid variants and include fatigue, fever, muscle pain and a sore throat
However, the general COVID cases fall compared to the past weeks.
Only 5.4 percent of COVID tests analyzed by Ukhsa in the week that ended on 29 June was positive for the virus.
This is a slight decrease in the 7 percent of the tests that were positively returned the week before, which has been registered this year as the highest positivity percentage has been registered so far.
Neither Nimbus nor Stratus is supposed to cause new symptoms compared to previous tribes.
However, Medici have warned that everyone with a ‘razor’ throat can have Nimbus.
Dr. Michael Gregory, regional medical director of NHS England in the northwest, recently said: “The variant seems to be spreading quickly within communities, with top symptoms are a ‘razor’ sore throat and swollen neck glands.”
But any Covid infection with the virus can still be deadly, especially for more vulnerable groups such as the elderly or people with compromised immune system.
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