It’s called the XEC COVID variant. “The XEC variant appears to be the most likely one to get legs next,” Eric Topol, M.D., ...

The coronavirus subvariant XEC is drawing more attention as a potential threat heading into late autumn and winter — ...

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

The latest global coronavirus mutation is swiftly spreading in Europe. Will it drive a wave of illness in the U.S.? And do ...

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

COVID XEC variant has been confirmed in 27 countries in Europe, North America and Asia, according to data specialist Mike ...

While XEC is not dominant in the United States, it could take hold by the late fall and winter, one health expert said in a ...

The XEC variant is currently more common in Europe. Right now, it’s been detected in Poland, Norway, Luxembourg, Ukraine, and Portugal. But XEC has also been spotted in China, and there have been 23 ...

XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite rapidly” ...

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 ...

A new Covid variant, dubbed XEC, is spreading through Europe and could soon become the most dominant strain of the infection, ...