While we have not registered any cases of the COVID-19 XEC variant, it would only take an entry from a person carrying this variant from any of the 29 reported countries to introduce it into Nigeria, especially with the Yuletide season approaching. Therefore, we are on high alert. The symptoms are similar to those of COVID-19, and the notion that COVID-19 has vanished is false.

Dr. Alero Ann Roberts
Associate Professor, Community Health, College of Medicine, University of Lagos

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