The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...

The COVID XEC variant, a recombinant of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 COVID-19 variants, has been been spreading and has already ...

The XEC COVID variant has spread rapidly in some European countries, and it's now been reported in some U.S. states. But ...

A new COVID variant is raising questions and capturing the attention of researchers heading into the fall and winter season.

XEC’s prevalence is lower in the US and Canada and reached a high of 5.96% in European cases on 19 August. Slovenia had high ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.

The new and contagious XEC COVID-19 variant is spreading rapidly in several countries. Will it cause a surge in the U.S.?

COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around ...

COVID levels in the U.S. remain high, according to wastewater detections, which is a retreat from the CDC’s label of “very ...

Heading into fall and winter virus season, and with a new COVID variant raising questions, Americans will soon be able to get ...

Currently, KP.3.1.1 accounts for over half of all COVID cases in the U.S. The next closest subvariant circulating is KP.2.3, ...

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, a new variant known as the Covid XEC variant is starting to spread rapidly ...