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Preparing for a new strain

Officials still watching mutations of COVID-19

Three years on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus still looms as hospital cases around the country are still reporting infections.

Experts are now finding that many current COVID-19 cases are from a new variant named EG.5 or “Eris”

The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus stemming from COVID-19.

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