India is on high alert amid China’s worrying COVID-19 surge. We are talking about variants and vaccines with masks all set to make a comeback. The WhatsApp university, peddling fake news, is back in action. A message doing the rounds on social media reads, “COVID-Omicron XBB is 5 times more virulent than the Delta variant and has a higher mortality rate than it. It takes less time for the condition to reach extreme severity and sometimes there are no obvious symptoms.” The message went so viral that the government had to intervene. The Ministry of Health took to Twitter, saying...