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

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

The new COVID variant has shown fast local growth in some areas, especially in parts of Europe and the US, yet broader COVID activity has remained low overall in recent WHO and CDC reporting. Readers, ...

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

A new Covid variant is spreading across the U.S. and it may be able to evade protection from current vaccines. The variant, known as BA.3.2, has been detected in nasal swabs taken from four American ...

There hasn’t been much talk about COVID-19 over the past few months, and with good reason: Government wastewater testing data suggests that cases of the virus across the country are currently low. But ...

The World Health Organization is warning countries that the omicron coronavirus variant poses “very high” global risk – and is likely to spread internationally. “The likelihood of potential further ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart became the latest ...

A COVID-19 outbreak in a residential building in Spain during the early months of the pandemic likely spread through shared ...