A new and deadly Covid virus called Arcturus has been reported months after Pfizer through a top staff, Trishton Walker, was confronted for creating its mutations in their labs.
The new Covid, XBB.1.16 variant which is also called Arcturus has been on the watch by the World Health Organization after its discovery following spikes in fresh cases of infection of the coronavirus in India.
According to Our World in Data, new daily cases hit 5,555 two days ago on April 11. This is up from 353 recorded one month earlier.
New cases of infection from Arcturus have also been reported in the U.S., Australia, and Singapore, with the Times Of India reporting that cases in kids under the age of 12 years old are on the rise.
According to a report from the Office for National Statistics, after a random analysis were done on Britains, where 100,000 were randomly swabbed and tested, it was concluded that almost 1.7 million people in the UK were carrying the virus on any given day in the week to March 13.
All the Information About The New Covid Virus – Arcturus
Arcturus is a subvariant combination of the other two subvariants of the Omircon variant. In late March, the WHO declared the virus a “variant under monitoring”, adding that it is the most transmissible variant of Covid-19 so far discovered.
According to Dr. Vipin M Vashishtha, a pediatrician and former head of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Immunization, some of the symptoms of Arcturus infection are high fever, cough, and another symptom that was not seen with the previous Covid variants – itchy conjunctivitis or pinkeye.
Several studies report that Omicron and its sub-lineages are still the most common Covid variant, most of the discovered variants have little or no significant transmissibility, disease severity, or immune escape.
