A new coronavirus virus variant, XEC, is rapidly spreading across the United States. XEC has become the second most prevalent strain in the country, according to data released by the U.S. Centers ...

XEC is the latest COVID-19 variant spreading in the U.S. The World Health Organization is monitoring the latest variant. Doctors expect that it will continue to spread—here’s what to do. The ...

As the United States gears up for cold and flu season, there's another new COVID-19 strain to be on the look out for: XEC. The XEC variant has become the second-most prevalent strain in the ...

A new and contagious COVID variant known as XEC, which has been spreading rapidly in other countries over the last few months, has reportedly made its way to Chicago. Erin Newcomer, a genomic ...

Called XEC, the strain is a combination of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 variants. Figures from the UKHSA show that the admission rate for patients testing positive for all strains rose to 4.5 per 100,000 ...

As of Oct. 12, the most recent CDC data available, KP.3.1.1 accounts for 57.2% of COVID-19 cases, followed by XEC (10.7%), KP.2.3 (7.8%), LB.1 (5.8%) and KP.3 (5.7%). Two weeks prior, XEC was ...

A WORRYING new strain of Covid is spreading "rapidly" across the globe, experts have warned. XEC was first detected in Germany in June and has since been found in at least 29 countries across ...

The new COVID variant XEC has been found by UK health experts as they prepare for winter, when cases tend to increase. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has highlighted a slight increase in ...

The swift emergence of the new Covid variant XEC, which experts worry may outmanoeuvre current vaccines, has sparked concern as it gears up to become the dominant strain this winter. The variant ...

26 and Oct. 7. Following the data from Rio de Janeiro, additional XEC lineage genomes from São Paulo, based on samples collected in August, and from Santa Catarina, from two samples taken in ...

That’s according to Health Canada, which projects COVID-19 XEC made up nearly 20 per cent of cases in this country by Oct. 13.

A new COVID-19 variant called XEC is spreading around the world, as numerous countries deal with another flu season. The strain, which is a combination of Omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, is ...