Pfizer and BioNTech said on Friday that a committee from the European Medicine Agency recommended marketing authorization for its Omicron adapted vaccine to prevent Covid-19, meaning the vaccine is ...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE, "Pfizer") and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, "BioNTech") today announced that the Committee for Medicinal ...

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against ...

For those wanting the home test kit, free rapid antigen tests will continue to be available through local public health units ...

Omicron variant KP.3.1.1, also known as deFLuQE, made up over half (52.7%) of COVID-19 cases between Sept. 1 and Sept. 14. However, XEC and a variant known as MV.1 seem poised to become the next ...

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.

By mid-September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the Omicron subvariant KP.3.1.1 accounted for most COVID-19 cases. KP.3.1.1 is a member of a group of variants nicknamed ...

The COVID-19 XEC variant, a new strain with increased transmissibility, raises concerns about potential vaccine evasion and ...

A new COVID variant, XEC, has arrived just before fall. The new variant has sprouted from the Omicron variant that developed ...

A Covid modeller says a fourth summer wave is likely as a new variant emerges overseas.

Researchers indicate that the vaccine and booster shots should protect against the new variant. Here is what we know about ...