BREAKING! Parts of China witnessing a COVID-19 resurgence driven by a new recombinant Delta and Omicron variant, XDV.1
James Josh Fact checked by:TMN Team Aug 08, 2024 3 months, 6 days, 7 minutes ago
COVID-19 News: While many assume that the Delta and recombinant Delta variants have vanished over the last few years, emerging news from China are showing a rather surprising turn of events.
Reports are emerging from scientists working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Peking University in Beijing and also from virologists at the Pasteur Institute in Shanghai that several provinces in China are facing a new resurgence of COVID-19 infections.
The provinces affected included Hubei, Heinan, Anhui, Hunan, Shanxi and Heibei with reports emerging that the situation is bad in Hubei province and that the Chinese government is planning discreet but stringent strategies to deal with the situation in Hubei.
What is interesting is that is it not the KP variants such as KP.2 or KP.2.3 or KP.3 or its sub-lineage KP.3.1.1 that is driving new surge in China but rather a new recombinant Delta and Omicron variant that is named as XDV.1
While the Chinese authorities have been very successful in controlling all local
COVID-19 News and reports about this new surge in China, the details that the new surge being driven by the new XDV.1 sub-lineages has been verified by the sequences that have been downloaded on the GISAID platform.
What is concerning is that these XDV.1 variants are evolving at a rather rapid rate and spawning numerous new sub-lineages with concerning mutations and the fact that the new XDV.1variants are driving disease severity in those infected with it.
Personal reports from researchers in Beijing and Shanghai are claiming that hospitalization rates are once again gradually increasing in all the affected provinces in China with Hubei worse hit. Local health authorities have already started setting up screening centers and temporary clinics across Hubei to dispense a variety or antivirals and those testing positive have been told to isolate at their homes.
There are no reported lockdowns this time round in the affected provinces but some checkpoints have been set up across Hubei province to prevent unnecessary travel between districts and to outside the province.
According to the same sources, COVID-19 positivity rates in Hubei is currently hovering at between 10 to 11 percent and that in the past 7 days, almost 5,200 plus cases have been identified via testing across Hubei province.
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