Subvariant XBB.1.16 is related to the XBB.1.5 subvariant, which was detected in Australia in January, and both are mutations from the Omicron variant. This is what we know about it.
XBB.1.16 was first detected in NSW in February this year, with infections slowly rising.
Subvariant XBB.1.16 has come to be known colloquially as Arcturus and is related to the XBB.1.5 subvariant, which was detected in Australia in January.Studies on the Australian population indicate that in comparison, it is essentially "more of the same", according to Stuart Turville, an associate professor at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales.
"And then we've asked the question, this variant versus the others, what does it look like?" he said.
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