The strain was first reported in January. It has mostly been documented in India, which is seeing a significant increase in coronavirus infections. Does Arcturus Come with New COVID-19 Symptoms? There are increasing reports that XBB.1.16 appears to be linked to conj...
A new COVID-19 variant, HV.1, has become the most prevalent strain in the United States, accounting for about a quarter of new cases as of late October. HV.1 is a subvariant of omicron and is closely related to the second most common variant, EG.5. While HV.1 is not believed to...
The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
A new COVID-19 strain has emerged that appears likely to stick around in the U.S. through the holiday season. SEE: Latest Coronavirus and Vaccine News JN.1, which is a close relative to BA.2.86, is the fastest growing variant in the U.S. According to estimates from the Cen...
COVID-19 in Nebraska As of August 15, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services hasremoved COVID-19 wastewater datafrom its website. In the week ending May 3, 2025, there were1,913 COVID-19 tests performed in Nebraska, with 88 positive results. This is a 4.6% positivity rat...
The health secretary has said the government is still following Plan A for managing COVID-19 through the winter. But he has warned that "if we need to go further, we will". On 3 December, Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowdentold Sk...
lungs."What is becoming clearer … is that Omicron seems to have lesser impact on lungs than prior variants," said Dr. Ronald Whelan, head of Discovery Health's COVID-19 task team.Whelan's employer, South Africa's largest health insurer, released anearly reportlast month on the Omicron ...
Mutations are a natural phenomenon in the world of virology. Still, each new variant raises possible concerns due to changes in the virus's ability to bypass theimmune systemor escape the protections provided by vaccines. A woman is seen preparing a dose of the COVID vaccine. (credit: FLASH...
"XEC is just the latest, but we will see more." Why is the XEC variant in the news? Variant trackers first proposed labeling the new strain as XEC in early August, after infections were reported around the same time from labs both in Europe and Virginia. XEC's growth in recent weeks ...
East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The new, or ‘novel’ coronavirus is a previously unidentified strain of coronavirus, which is responsible for the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 – and has been na...