New Covid threat
Daily Mirror UK|October 08, 2024
Highly contagious XEC Variant set to dominate
MARTIN BAGOT
New Covid threat

A NEW Covid-19 strain called XEC is set to take over Britain this week.

It is descended from the Omicron variant but is more contagious and has already grown to make up a fifth of Covid infections in the UK.

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