EG.5 most prominent substrain of COVID-19 raising concern in China.

From merely 0.6 percent prevalence in April this year, EG.5 has seen a rapid upswing, accounting for a striking 71.6 percent of COVID-19 infections.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified EG.5 as a variant of interest.

However, it maintains that this does not imply that EG.5 presents increased threat levels compared to other variants.

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention also shed light on the aspect of immunity in relation to EG.5.

According to their data, those inflicted with the XBB substrain of Omicron from April to June are apparently immunologically resistant to EG.5.