Head of a gene-sequencing institute at the University of Stellenbosch - Tulio de Oliveira - said in a tweet on Friday that the variant was discovered in the Western Cape following gene sequencing carried out from a 27th of December sample.
JOHANNESBURG - The Health Department said it was still gathering information to give a more conclusive report on the newly detected highly transmissible variant of COVID-19 - nicknamed ‘the kraken’.
First XBB.1.5 detected in SA today by Stellenbosch University, Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa . XBB.1.5=1% . Isolate from 27-Dec-2022. Interesting, two others assigned as BA.2.75 with extra Spike F486P mutation. Tweet 1/2
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