Tamil Nadu is geared up to tackle the new COVID-19 variant XE or any other strain and the state government is monitoring the situation, Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Tuesday told the Assembly and outlined the measures being taken up in this connection. Referring to his meeting with Chairman of India's COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, N K Arora here on April 10, Subramanian quoted him as saying that according to the Centre, the one case each detected in Maharashtra and Gujarat does not fall under the XE type. The XE is one among the seven sub-variants of Omicron. Arora said there is no need to panic but the government is however cautious, he stated. The Minister was replying to AIADMK's C Vijayabaskar, who moved a calling attention motion and wanted to know the steps being taken in this connection, including the vaccination aspect.