The CDC's Nowcast data tracker, which displays COVID-19 estimates and projections for two-week periods, reflected that the KP ...

The CDC is "monitoring the XEC variant," Rosa Norman, a CDC spokesperson told USA TODAY. This variant "is the proposed name ...

New COVID strain XEC is a recombinant strain of two variants in the Omicron family: KS.1.1 and KP.3.3. The hybrid strain was ...

Covid hospitalisations have surged across Britain at an “alarming” rate as a new variant of the virus emerged, the UK Health ...

The XEC variant of Covid is quickly becoming the dominant strain of the winter, but the current vaccines may not be as ...

NHS has asked people with symptoms to isolate and the UK Health Security Agency urging those eligible to get booster jabs ...

There are 2,622 patients in hospital in the latest figures with Covid, up six per cent with 68 Covid acute respiratory ...

While KP.3.1.1 remains the dominant strain in the U.S., XEC is gaining steam, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Some reports and social media users have raised concerns over the new COVID variant - but what are official health authorities saying?

A new and contagious COVID variant known as XEC, which has been spreading rapidly in other countries over the last few months ...

The XEC Covid variant is incredibly fast spreading, and now that it's been detected in multiple countries, it's vital that ...

Even previous versions of the vaccine built from XEC’s predecessors like omicron might not be as effective against the new ...