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Australia detects the first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain dubbed XEC (www.abc.net.au)
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In short:

Australia has recorded its first cases of the XEC COVID-19 variant that has been spreading in Europe this year.

The mutation is a "recombinant" variant that is a mix of two previous Omicron subvariants called KS 1.1 and KP 3.3.

What's next?

An infectious disease expert says the strain has the hallmarks of something that could lead to a "summer wave" of infections.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

I don't see it going away anytime soon, so this will probably end up being like the annual flu shot, or even rolled into one shot eventually.