Five Brits have already died with

Five Brits have already died with , the new Covid strain wreaking havoc across .

The variant, thought to be the most infectious yet, is causing carnage in India, with cases having exploded 90-fold since it first took off two months ago.

Some of the worst-hit states have already brought back mandatory face masks to control its rapid spread.

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) chiefs have detected 135 cases of the spin-off, eVdeN eVe nAKLiYAT which first reached Britain in mid-February.

Only one region, the North East, has yet to see it.

Surveillance data shows the strain, scientifically called XBB.1.16, makes up roughly 2.3 per cent of all new cases.

Separate unofficial figures suggest around 65,000 Brits are getting infected each day

Other Omicron sub-variants include Kraken (XBB.1.5) and Orthrus (CH.1.1).

Currently Kraken remains the dominant strain in the UK, as of April 14, causing 44 per cent of cases, while Omicron accounts from 8 per cent and Arcturus, eVDEn Eve NAKliYaT 2.3 per cent, EvDEN EvE NAkliYaT the UKHSA said

India now accounts for 61 per cent of all recorded cases of XBB. In case you loved this article as well as you would want to get more info about EVdEn eVE NAKLiYAt i implore you to check out our own webpage. 1.16, UKHSA officials warned.

The dominant variant in the country, between March 20 and April 3, over two thirds (68 per cent) of all cases logged were the Arcturus strain. Separate figures from the Oxford University-run platform Our World in Data show new daily cases hit 9,526 six days ago on April 18, EVdEN evE nAKliyAt up from 625 recorded one month earlier

While the rapid rise in Covid cases is of some concern, it is still far below the devastating wave the country experienced in 2021 from the Delta variant

Five deaths are included in the cases.

It is not clear if the patients died from that particular strain, or with it.

But the case toll — based on genomic surveillance — will be a massive undercount because only a fraction of samples are now tested thoroughly.

Surveillance data shows the strain, scientifically called XBB.1.16, makes up roughly 2.3 per cent of all new cases.

The proportion has trebled since the start of April.

Separate unofficial figures suggest around 65,000 Brits are getting infected each day.

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