COVID-19 What does the emergence of the XE variant mean for you?

State governments continue to ease COVID-19 restrictions. However, NSW recently detected a case of the XE COVID-19 variant in a returned overseas traveller. Victoria health authorities have also identified the incidence a new COVID sub-variant. What does this mean for our health?

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Dr Dicky Budiman is an epidemiologist who is undertaking research to complete his PhD at Griffith University.  He tells Sri Dean why the XE variant poses a threat to public health and what we need to do to combat it.

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