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The new XEC variant of coronavirus was identified in Germany and is spreading rapidly in Europe..
A new variant of the Covid virus called the XEC is spreading quickly in Europe..
Covid data analyst Mike Honey, said in X, that there has been "strong growth" XEC in Denmark and Germany...
He wrote: "Recombinant variant XEC is continuing to spread, and looks a likely next challenger against the now-dominant DeFLuQE variants (KP.3.1.1.)..
Symptoms are thought to be the same cold or flu-like ones as before, much like the omicron variants including fever, sore throat or cough, body aches, tiredness and loss of appetite...
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