How Hard Will the New Covid Variant Hit Idaho? There’s a new variant of COVID and omicron called HV.1 that is spreading rapidly around the United States. The variant is a powerful and contagious mutation of the deadly virus that has only been around for a few months but has quickly b...
CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from London on the global impacts of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
On July 20, three days before theOlympics began, a woman in her 30s from Peru tested positive for COVID-19 at Haneda Airport in Tokyo and was immediately flagged as a probable carrier of the highly infectious Lambda variant of COVID-19. However, The Daily Beast has learn...
Just before the holiday season, the CDC confirmed anew COVID variant that started spreadingacross the nation and New York State. The new variant is called JN.1. This new variant is another descendant of the Omicron variant. It's believed to be more contagious than other forms of COVID. Wa...
Several new variants of the virus have been discovered around the world, including a highly contagious, and potentially more deadly, variant first identified in southeast England and now widespread in Britain. Vucic said all those who had been in contact with the infected woman had been put un...
As cold weather approaches, you may think that your runny nose is a just a side effect of weather. According to new research of the Omicron COVID variant, it could be a viral symptom.
But during a media briefing in London on Friday, Prime minister Boris Johnson said that the variant was not only more contagious but may also be more deadly. While scientists agree that the evidence of the so-called British variant's greater lethality is preliminary and based on limited data,...
In 2021, weekly COVID-19 hospitalizations slowed during May and June to some of their lowest levels to date, ahead of when President Biden celebrated "independence" from the virus. But that came only weeks before a new deadly surge in August from the Delta variant, which drove hospitalizatio...
The variant is related to the Delta, an existing variant of concern, which was first identified in India last year and is thought to have driven the deadly second wave of infections in the summer. The health ministry says the Delta plus variant, first found in India in April, has been de...
A new COVID variant has recently been detected in several countries including the UK, US, India, Australia and Germany.