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Covid-19 will mutate to overcome vaccine immunity, warns former WHO chief scientist

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WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, in an interview with news agency ANI, has said, “There is a risk that the virus will mutate in a way that it can overcome the vaccine induced immunity. " Swaminathan has suggested that continued surveillance should be done to avoid another wave that could potentially kill millions of people like the Covid-19 did during the second wave that was dominated by the Delta variant of the virus.

Earlier in February, the WHO has estimated that 90 percent of the world population now had some resistance to Covid-19, but warned that a troubling new variant could still emerge.

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. said there were now more than 500 highly transmissible Omicron sub-lineages circulating -- all able to get around built-up immunity more easily, even if they tended to be less severe than previous variants.

The latest in this mutation chain is the XBB.1.5 subvariant, known informally as “Kraken", in a menagerie of Omicron subvariants to dominate the headlines, following increasing detection in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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