Cases of incidence of a new type of coronavirus Omicron XBB. 5 or " Therefore, already six regions have a confirmed version of the new strain: Sumy, where the first patient was, Transcarpathian, Ternopil, Odessa, Cherkasy and Lviv regions. This was reported by the press service of the Public Health Center.

" 5 in two more regions of the country - Cherkasy and Lviv. Thanks to the work of the sequencer and the team of our specialists, it was possible to process almost a thousand samples,"

She recalled that the strain Omicron XBB. 5 is usually more easily tolerated by patients, but it has the ability to be transmitted more quickly.

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