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New COVID-19 variant EG.5 is on the rise in the US and is causing about 17 per cent of the new coronavirus cases in the country as compared to 16 per cent for the next most common lineage, XBB.1.16, according to the latest estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CNN reported.
EG.5, compared to its parent XBB.1.9.2, has one extra mutation to its spike, at position 465. This mutation has appeared in other coronavirus variants before. Scientists are still not aware what the new mutation enables the virus to do.
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