Ahead of the festive season, a new COVID variant has started spreading in the west and has infected around 600 people in as many as 27 countries like Germany, the UK, US and Denmark. Researchers say it is "just getting started".

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against it

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

The U.S. is coming down from its biggest COVID summer surge yet as a new subvariant emerges—but new vaccines are here, too.

A new variant of the old enemy from the pandemic is sweeping through Europe and now confirmed cases in Britain are rising.