New Covid variant Eris now impacting on the health service

The centre cautioned that, though the mutation is highly transmissible, there is no evidence of it causing more severe infection.

The body added it is also unlikely the variants are “associated with any increase in infection severity compared to previously circulating variants, or reduction in vaccine effectiveness against severe disease”.said the rise in Covid-19 in recent weeks in Ireland can be attributed to EG.5. She said it was normal behaviour for a virus to evolve and mutate like that.

EG.5 is also increasing globally though is not yet the most dominant strain. Other variants that share some of the same mutations are also being monitored globally for changes in numbers and any associated changes in clinical presentation.BA.2.86 is associated with a high number of mutations. Last week Prof Francois Balloux, director of the University College London Genetics Institute, said BA.2.86 was the most striking Covid strain the world has witnessed since the emergence of Omicron.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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