Centre Denies Reports Of New Coronavirus XE Variant In India

The ministry said the individual who had tested positive for XE Variant is a fully vaccinated 50-year-old woman with no comorbidity and asymptomatic.

The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that said present evidence does not suggest the presence of XE variant of COVID denying media reports that claimed that a case of the new mutant was reported in Mumbai.

"Hours after report of detection of XE variant of Coronavirus in Mumbai,

@MoHFW_INDIA has said present evidence does not suggest the presence of the new variant," PIB Maharashtra said in a tweet.

It referred to the Health Ministry clarification on the reported case of COVID XE Variant in Mumbai.