There is a new coronavirus variant in town. KP.2, a member of the so-called FliRT variants, nicknamed after their mutations, ...

The KP.3.1.1 COVID-19 variant is the dominant strain of the virus, the latest projections from the Centers for Disease ...

Cases of the more contagious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK have been confirmed in several European countries as well as Canada and Japan. Infections linked to people who arrived ...

Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. However, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and ...

A new Covid-19 variant has entered the scene, becoming the most prevalent strain in the U.S. However, it may not be as dangerous as the ones that came before. "At this time, there is no evidence ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 just keeps doing what ... now silently—because viruses don’t talk—is the XEC variant of the SARS-CoV-2. The Centers for Disease Control ...

As per the data updated at 8 am on March 24 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), India currently has 7,927 active cases, which is 0.02% of the global caseload, the death toll has ...

so the emergence of a very different variant was unlikely—although not impossible. Hopkins said that prevention efforts against COVID-19 were being complicated by the "ongoing mistrust of ...

SARS-CoV-2 variant XEC increases as KP.3.1.1 slows. Ge Y, Martinez L, Sun S, et al. COVID-19 transmission dynamics among close contacts of index patients with COVID-19: A population-based cohort ...

A new Covid-19 variant has exploded in recent weeks to become the world's most dominant strain, despite accounting for just 4% of cases in early November. First detected in France and the US ...