XBB and BF.7 in Taiwan
The Taiwan Central Epidemic Command Center yesterday reported the first locally acquired cases of new Omicron subvariants XBB and BF.7.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Philip Lo, deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division, said that among the 139 sequenced samples of local cases last week, 134 cases (96 percent) were infected with the Omicron BA.5 subvariant, three had the BA.2 subvariant, and one each had the BF.7 and XBB subvariants.
