FLiRT COVID-19 variants in India: The new COVID-19 variant, FLiRT, has now been reported in India. So far, India has reported 250 cases of COVID-19 and most of those cases are attributed to KP. 2 and KP1. 1, who are descendants of Omicron JN. 1.
FLiRT variants cause an increase in COVID-19 infections in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea. According to experts, FLiRT variants can evade immunity from vaccines and past infections.
Dr. Tushar Tayal, Senior Consultant at the Department of Internal Medicine at CK Birla Hospital, Gurugram, maintains that the new Omicron KP. 2 subvariant of Covid-19 has been detected in Maharashtra.
“This variant has replaced the JN. 1 variant that was circulating in the past and is now generating cases in several countries. It is an organization of mutants, jointly called FLiRT. KP. 2 and KP. 1. 1 are among the variants and lately culprits of a quarter of COVID cases in the United States. They were named FLiRT based on the letters derived from their mutations. The FLiRT variants are direct descendants of JN. 1,” Dr. Tayal told Financial Express. com.
He also reported that existing laboratory knowledge implies that KP. 2 could be the maximum main variant and is slightly more contagious than the JN. 1 variant.
«. . . Currently, this is causing a large increase in the number of infections or their severity,” he said.
The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a statement of intent and prevention. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (CDC) notes that there are no signs lately that KP. 2 causes more severe disease than other strains.
According to Dr. M Wali, Senior Consultant at the Department of Medicine at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, the lineage has changed and has recently been known in those who reduced their immunity after a booster, especially after mRNA vaccines.
«. . . It is a set of KP. 2 and JN. 1 variants that contain several mutations related to immune escape from vaccine-mediated immune protection. Preliminary studies suggest that the number of relative effective replications of KP. 2 would possibly be 1. 22 times greater than that. Apart from those technical details, India doesn’t have to worry because our immunity is acquired and so far no new vaccines have been recommended,” Dr. Wali told Financial Express. com.
Symptoms of FLiRT variants include:
“The symptoms of FLiRT variants are similar to those of JN. 1. Many other people would possibly also experience symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea and vomiting,” Dr. Tayal told Financial Express. com.
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