The new, highly transmissible XBB.1.5 covid variant has found its way to South Africa, setting off alarm bells across the continent including in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.
Maria Van Kerkhove, Covid-19 technical lead at the World’s Health Organization (WHO), this week called XBB.1
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