The recently detected Omicron sub-variant dubbed ‘XE’ is a combination of the BA.1 and BA.2 sub-variants, with a slightly faster rate of transmission compared to the BA.2 sub-variant, said Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar during the daily press conference yesterday.
The Omicron XE sub-variant is currently spreading in the United Kingdom (UK) and was detected in Thailand recently.
Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham assured the public that the sub-variant has not been detected in the Sultanate and that the Ministry of Health (MoH) is still monitoring through genomic sequencing surveillance.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
