A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is rising to prominence in the U.S. as winter illness season approaches its peak: JN.1, yet another descendent of Omicron. JN.1 was first detected in ...

If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating ...

The new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first observed in the United Kingdom has now made its way to Southern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. The variant is described as ...

COVID-19 is spreading at a rapid pace around the world. A new variant of COVID-19, first identified in January of this year, is cited as the cause. Stratus is currently reported in two forms: XFG and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the COVID-19 delta variant as one of its "variants of concern" (VOCs) on June 15. According to the CDC, VOCs can be more contagious, more ...

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 for ...

A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body's immune defenses is capturing the attention of virologists and health officials. While only ...

A new strain of Covid, with a unique symptom, is circulating in the UK, accounting for a high proportion of cases in England.

A coronavirus outbreak detected last month on a mink farm in France did not involve a mutated strain of the virus, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

The XFG variant, also known as Stratus, is now the predominant COVID-19 strain in the U.S. after spreading to 38 countries, ...

NEW YORK -- The Minnesota Department of Health announced Thursday that it has a confirmed case of the COVID-19 omicron variant in a Hennepin County resident. Officials only identified the patient with ...