The XEC strain was first detected in Germany in June but cases have since been reported in the UK, Ireland, France , Spain , ...

The new variant appears to have a "growth advantage", and is likely to become dominant in the UK within months.

The new Covid variant XEC, more infectious than its predecessors, is rapidly spreading and manifesting intense flu-like ...

Over the nearly five years since COVID first emerged, you'd be forgiven if you've lost track of the number of new variants we ...

That would mean the usual COVID symptoms listed by the NHS - including a high temperature or shivering, a new, continuous ...

XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite rapidly” ...

But so far, the two main symptoms are fever and body aches, according to her and Dr. Nikhil Bhayani, MD, assistant professor ...

As cases of a new COVID-19 variant spike across the U.S., the federal government is once again providing Americans with free ...

What’s the outlook for COVID-19 and flu this fall and winter? It’ll probably be a lot like last year, experts say.

"The Mir-19 pharmaceutical attacks the highly conservative gene of the new coronavirus infection. Its efficacy does not change in connection with virus mutations. It will be efficient against the XEC ...

What to know about the XEC Covid variant, which is now in the U.S. Is it more contagious and do the updated vaccines work against it?