While the latest variant, called Cicada, carries more mutations, it’s still part of the Omicron family that emerged in 2021.

As the weather cools and fall approaches, COVID-19 cases are still spiking in much of the United States. The country has yet to emerge from a late summer COVID wave driven by the highly contagious new ...

LONDON — As more cases of the new omicron Covid variant emerge around the world, experts say it's likely that the variant, first identified in South Africa last week, had already been circulating for ...

The fall-winter COVID-19 vaccine designed to counter XBB, a subvariant of the Omicron strain, is now available nationwide for ...

COVID-19 cases were relatively low across the country for most of the summer, but they’re now creeping up again. Data shows that this is thanks to the new COVID-19 variant XFG, nicknamed Stratus, ...

A new variant of the novel coronavirus called EG.5 is spreading in Japan, with experts expecting it to be the dominant strain ...

Read Omicron virus latest news & updates on The Economic Times. Get latest info on Omicron Variant symptoms, Omicron Variant ...