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COVID Outbreak : XBB1.5 & BF.7
The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant, according to the CDC, has replaced the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 subvariants as the most frequently discovered coronavirus alterations as of this week. Two sub-variants that evolved from the BA.2 omicron subvariant were recombined to create the XBB subvariant, from which XBB.1.5 descends. That indicates that it contains genetic material from two coronavirus variants that descended from the BA.2 subvariant.
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