A new Covid variant, nicknamed FLiRT, has arrived in Ireland and is quickly gaining ground, now accounting for around one-third of cases of the virus picked up here.
Virologists are using the term FLiRT to describe a family of different variants - KP.2, KP.3, JN.1.7, JN.1.1, and KP.1.1, all descendants of the JN.1 variants known as Juno.
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