COVID-19: The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports that claimed to have found the first case of the XE variant of the corona virus in India. In some media reports, it was claimed by the BMC that a patient infected with a new variant of the corona virus has been identified in Mumbai.
An official of the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation told news agency ANI, “230 samples were tested to find out the genetic formula of the COVID virus. Out of this, Omicron variants have been confirmed in 228 patients. One patient has ‘XE’. The variant has been found infected. While one patient has been found infected with the kappa variant of corona.
At the same time, BMC officials had told that the patient infected with the XE variant is a 50-year-old woman and she has also received both the vaccines of COVID. The BMC said that the woman has not shown any symptoms so far and she is not suffering from any chronic disease.
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However, the Health Ministry has rejected this claim of Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation and BMC. Health ministry sources say that genome sequencing of the patient’s sample does not indicate the presence of the XE variant.
Health Ministry officials said, “The FastQ files (which are being called ‘XE’ variants) of the patient’s sample have been analyzed by genomic experts. They have inferred in the analysis that the genome sequencing of this file, ‘XE’ variant. is not linked to the genomic picture.
WHO had issued a warning
Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning against it. The WHO had said that this new variant created after the change may be more infectious than all the earlier variants. It is said that this variant originated from the United Kingdom (UK). The YAG Omicron sub-variant is 10 times more infectious than BA.2. So far, BA.2 has been considered the most infectious of all the variants of COVID-19.