Here's the latest about what we know about the new COVID-19 variants now on the rise.What are current new COVID variants? There are two that are fairly prevalent and one — the highly mutated variant — that is not as widespread, for now. Every two weeks, the Centers for Disease Con...
The new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be associated with an increased risk of death, emerging data are suggesting. In a briefing paper published on 22 January the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) highlighted several preliminary analyses showing a ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the scare that came with a new virus and massive death tolls may seem like a distant memory to some, but COVID isn’t gone and some new strains are just as scary as COVID-19. How Hard Will the New Covid Variant Hit Idaho? There’s a new variant of CO...
As the Covid-19 virus continues to spread and evolve, each new variant is given an official name—and sometimes an unofficial nickname. We’ll keep this page updated with the latest Covid-19 variant names and an explanation of where the new names come from. What isXBB.1.5? XBB.1.5is a...
Lots of people have been wondering whether the new variant of COVID-19 has the same symptoms as the original version, and a new study has some answers.
As of January 13, 2023, there have been 270,744,353 confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the whole of Europe since the first confirmed cases in January 2020. There were approximately 12.1 million new cases reported in the week beginning January 24, 2022, the highest number of ...
BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The KP.2 sub-variant of COVID-19, which has become increasingly prevalent on a global scale, is unlikely to cause a new infection peak in China in the near future, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration said on Tuesday. ...
FOX 2 - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed its first case of the UK COVID-19 variant in the state. The patient is an adult female in Washtenaw County who recently traveled to the UK. The new strain of the virus has already been detecte...
The spread of B117 and another more infectious variant from South Africa, known as B1351, has sparked fears of a similar new strain emerging in the US. But US officials on Friday denied reports that one had been detected so far.
Jeffrey Barrett of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said: "Bringing the UK's high-throughput genomic surveillance together with data from community testing from around the UK and advanced statistical models has enabled us to understand how the new variant of the COVIDvirusspreads. It's a real test...