Highly contagious: How dangerous is the new Omikron XBB.1.5 variant?
Many new infections in the USA XBB.1.5 is a subvariant of Omicron. So far, it has been detected in 29 countries, including Europe. There are no confirmed cases in Germany yet. “The X initially shows that this is a so-called recombination, i.e. two variants have exchanged genes,” explains the Munich virologist Alexander Kekulé. Apparently, XBB.1.5 … Read more
