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

A new COVID variant called XEC has been spreading around the globe as respiratory virus season begins — and many public ...

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 ...

Symptoms to look out for appear to be similar to previous COVID-19 strains. As per the CDC, these include fever or chills, ...

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

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

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned members of the public that the XEC strain of the disease is spreading in the UK ...

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

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

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