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According to an update on Covid figures released by Ireland's health authority, the most recent form, known as XEC, is ...

The new XEC variant is a recombinant of the KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 strains, and has been deemed to be more transmissible due to ...

Ireland has reported a significant increase in cases of the new XEC Covid variant, now accounting for 20.6% of cases in ...

The newest Covid variant XEC now accounts for one in five infections amid signs that the spread of the virus is on the rise ...

By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Recent estimates published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show ...

Stacker consulted research from Yale Medical School and the World Health Organization to find how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved ...

KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another ...

XEC has become the second most prevalent strain in the country, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), representing more than 1 in 10 cases. But ...

A new variant of COVID called XEC — a combination of two Omicron subvariants — is spreading in the middle of flu season.

KP.3.1.1 is still the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States as it accounts for nearly 60% of positive cases, but the XEC variant is not far behind, recent Centers for Disease Control and ...