{"id":23255,"date":"2024-05-11T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23255"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:33:01","slug":"flirt-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/flirt-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the FLiRT Variants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About FLiRT Variants:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>KP.2 and KP1.1,<\/strong> dubbed \u2018FLiRT\u2019 variants, are descendants of the <strong>Omicron JN.1<\/strong> which spread globally over the winter last year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The variants appear to outstrip their ancestor and other Omicron variants. KP.2 is the <strong>more dominant strain<\/strong> of the two and it is believed to leap past immunity built up from vaccines and previous infections.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The FLiRT\u2019 variants are descendants of the JN.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with two new added <strong>spike mutations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>How does it spreads?<\/strong> This variant spreads via respiratory droplets of the person to others, or touching infected surfaces such as faucets, furniture, elevator buttons etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms of FLiRT<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The symptoms of the new variant are similar to those of other Omicron subvariants: sore throat, cough, nausea, congestion, fatigue, headache, muscle or body ache, loss of taste or smell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prevention:<\/strong> Vaccination and preventive measures are advised to curb the spread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Omicron BF. 7?<\/h3>\n<p>Omicron BF. 7 is the latest sub-variant of the Omicron variant, first detected in Northwest China&#8217;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.It is also known as the &#8216;Omicron spawn&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/all-about-flirt-the-new-covid-19-variants-explained\/article68144878.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All about FLiRT, the new COVID-19 variants | Explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLiRT Variants  are descendants of the Omicron JN.1 which spread globally over the winter last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}