In short:

Australia has recorded its first cases of the XEC COVID-19 variant that has been spreading in Europe this year.

The mutation is a "recombinant" variant that is a mix of two previous Omicron subvariants called KS 1.1 and KP 3.3.

What's next?

An infectious disease expert says the strain has the hallmarks of something that could lead to a "summer wave" of infections.

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[–] Tooden@aus.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@zero_gravitas Are we going to treat it like all the previous summer Covid waves?
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[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What's the purpose of having the three monkeys that basically all say the same thing?

Like, from a rhetoric standpoint?

[–] Tooden@aus.social 2 points 6 hours ago

@threeduck Good question.