Over the last few days, a new Omicron variant has been grabbing headlines in Europe and the US. That’s “XEC” - a “recombinant ...

Another Covid-19 wave is likely this summer, a modeller says, as a new mutant coronavirus variant emerges overseas. Experts ...

The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.