The WHO is raising a new alarm signal for the population of the whole world, and this is because of a new worrying situation that it is bringing to the attention of billions of people at the moment, all with the idea of telling all people that there is a new variant of The coronavirus, XBB.1.16, which is being monitored extremely carefully in India, where it has become dominant.
The WHO says that the XBB.1.16 subvariant of the Coronavirus seems to have generated an increase in the number of cases of infection in India in recent weeks, the country starting to announce increases in infections after many months in which there were only decreases, and experts have discovered new changes in the Spike protein of the virus, which seems to make it more infectious, possibly more dangerous.
The WHO says that it is still monitoring very carefully what is happening in India with the XBB.1.16 subvariant of the Coronavirus, which is very similar to the XBB.1.15, but unfortunately more monitoring is needed to know if it causes more serious infections, although in some cases experts say that this seems to have happened.
The WHO is very attentive to all the elements related to the XBB.1.16 subvariant of the Coronavirus, saying that in the capital of India, New Delhi, the recommendation to wear a protective mask has been reintroduced due to the apparent increase in infectivity of this subvariant, but bigger problems will appear after that it will start to spread globally, and could generate a new wave of infections.
