COVID-19
— The ‘Kraken’ COVID variant XBB.1.5 is rising quickly in the US. It can evade our immune systems better than earlier variants and appears to be more infectious too. What does it mean for the UK?
Dr Grace C. Roberts
Virologist, Research Fellow in Virology, Queen's University Belfast. Her current research investigates the relationship between respiratory virus infections and the development of asthma.
COVID-19
— More than 1,000 cases of omicron XE have been detected in the UK so far. But we shouldn’t be seriously concerned at this stage.
