A woman puts on a face mask (Image: Getty) A new Covid strain is reported to be spreading across Europe and has been branded "more contagious" than some previous variants. The XEC variant - which derives from Omicron - could soon become the dominant strain across the continent according to experts. In a post on X, Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, warned: "At this juncture, the XEC variant appears to be the most likely one to get legs next".
“XEC is definitely taking charge,” Dr Topol added. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.
setAttribute('src','https://live.primis.tech/live/liveView.
php?s=118222&playerApiId=v118222');document.getElementById('ovp-primis').appendChild(el)}window.
top.addEventListener('primisPlayerInit',e=>{try{if(e.detail&&e.
detail.playerApiId==="v118222"){if(window.document.
getElementsByClassName('jwplayer')[0]){e.detail.float('disable')}}}catch(e){}});window.
addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',()=>{setTimeout(()=>{if(typeof flagTcfLoaded!=='undefined'&&flagTcfLoaded===!0){loadOvpScript()ExpressApp.Log('[Load] OVP flagTcfLoaded',new Date())}else{document.addEventListener("tcfLoaded",()=>{loadOvpScript()ExpressApp.
Log('[Load] OVP tcfLoaded',new Date())})}},1500)}) READ MORE Government orders more mpox jabs as UK prepares for new strain The new Covid strain is related to Omicron (Image: Getty) He went on to the say that the strain is "just getting started now around the world an.