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The number of COVID-19 deaths plummeted by 40 percent in 2025 from the previous year, but the infectious disease still killed around 21,000 senior citizens. The death toll from COVID-19 has declined ...

Cases of Covid-19 have risen sharply across the UK this month, driven largely by a variant of the virus known as ‘XFG’.

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2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines reduced hospitalization risk by 40% against JN.1 lineage variants. COVID-19 is still a public threat and health concern. Between 2024 and 2025, an estimated 380,000 to ...

The XFG variant is not a new, supercharged strain, but rather a recombinant variant that virologists have been tracking globally.

A COVID-19 variant reported in more than two dozen other countries has been found in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a recent report. The variant, BA.3.2, was ...

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XFG, dubbed “American COVID,” is spreading globally, with reports linking the variant to a distinctive hoarse or croaky voice.

Covid infections in England have more than doubled in a month, with hospital admissions also surging as the XFG variant continues to circulate.