A new Covid subvariant called FLuQE has been spreading across Australia and the US, as the UK continues to see cases increase week on week, leading to some hospitals reintroducing mask mandates to keep patients safe. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Hartlepool Mail, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. FLuQE, also called KP.
3, which is a subvariant of the FLiRT variant, has been causing cases to surge in Australia as they experience their cold season, as well as becoming the dominant strain in the USA. Advertisement Advertisement Covid is continuing to mutate and as it does so, the compound of the virus changes. FLuQE has an additional spike protein with makes it even more transmissible, which is thought to be behind the surge in case numbers.
Here’s everything you need to know about the FLuQE variant and what this means for Covid cases in the UK. FLuQE, also known as KP.3, is a new Covid subvariant that is a strain of the FLiRT variant that has been driving case numbers across the UK.
Other strains in that group included KP.1, KP.2, and JN.
1.7, with FLuQE sharing the same mutations as KP.2, however it has an additional spike protein with makes it even more transmissible.
Advertisement Advertisement It has been causing cases to surge in Australia as they experience their cold season, with FluQ3 now making up the majority of Covid infections. Speaking about t.