The COVID-19 virus strain that is dominating infections is known as XFG, aka Stratus.It is a recombinant of two existing SARS-CoV-2 lineages LF.7 and LP.8.1.2.According to WHO, "the additional public health risk posed by XFG is evaluated as low at the global level. Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective to this variant against symptomatic and severe disease."https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/variants/variants-and-genomic-surveillance.htmlhttps://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6mhttps://www.aussiepharmadirect.com.au/blogs/news/new-covid-variant-xfg-what-makes-stratus-different-and-what-to-expecthttps://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/25062025_xfg_ire.pdf2/n