Kathmandu, June 24 -- Nepal on Monday confirmed the spread of multiple subvariants of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Of the 14 swab samples of Covid-infected persons on which whole-genome sequencing was carried out recently, omicron subvariants were detected in all.

According to the National Public Health Laboratory, which carried out the whole genome sequencing, the subvariant XFG was confirmed in seven samples, XFG.3 in five samples, and JN.1 in two samples.

The omicron's subvariants XFG and XFG.3 are also the dominant strains spreading in neighbouring India.

The NPHL said that NB.1.8.1 was not detected in any of the samples.

Whole-genome sequencing is a comprehensive method of analysing the entire DNA sequence of an organ...