IN MANY ways it seems like a distant nightmare. People have returned to the office, traffic is back to normal and seeing someone in a mask is more the exception than the norm.
But all this doesn’t mean Covid is a thing of the past. Just as experts warned, new variants continue to rear their heads as life goes on because that’s what viruses do – they mutate to survive.
Right now EG.5, or Eris as it’s been dubbed, is the one on the march and it’s causing nervous flutters around the globe.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified it as “a variant of interest” and indicated it should be watched so that health experts are aware of it
