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Our regular commentator, Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith joins us with the latest Covid-19 science, and to answer your questions.
This week, the World Health Organization is warning of a new Covid-19 variant known as XE, a combination of the original BA.1 Omicron variant and its subvariant BA.2. It is thought this recombinant variant could be 10 percent more transmissible than the Omicron BA.2 variant currently sweeping across New Zealand. And while it's early days yet, there have been more than 600 reported cases of XE in the United Kingdom.
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