The Centre for Medical Genomics said Thailand has one case of XBB.1.16.1.1 or “FU.1”, the latest Covid-19 sub-variant that is 50% more transmissible than XBB.1.16.
Ramathibodi Hospital’s Centre for Medical Genomics on Wednesday posted on its Facebook page that the Omicron variant is consistently mutating into new sub-variants despite the global number of Covid-19 cases dropping.
The dominant Omicron sub-variants are XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16 and XBB.1.9.1.
The centre said the sub-variants XBB.1.16 and XBB.1.9.1 have become the dominant strains in the world, including in Singapore and Thailand. The centre collected genomic codes from Covid-19…
