Stacker consulted research from Yale Medical School and the World Health Organization to find how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved ...

A sub-variant of the Omicron strain of coronavirus has been classified as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization, because of "its rapidly increasing spread". JN.1 has been found ...

Since 2020, COVID-19 has surged across the nation and the world. With variants like Omicron, Delta, Alpha and more, this ...

The strain has now been detected in at least 29 countries and 24 US states. XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite ...

The XEC variant is the latest COVID-19 variant that’s been tracked around the world. “It’s one of the Omicron variants and it seems to be reasonably contagious,” says William Schaffner ...

GISAID charts around 100 sequences of XEC ... XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in ...

The KP.3.1.1 variant, part of the Omicron family, has been the strain dominating the country and was the only major variant increasing in proportion nationally in August. The Nowcast data tracker ...

This variant "is the proposed name of a recombinant, or hybrid, of the closely related Omicron lineages KS.1.1 and KP.3.3." The variant, which first appeared in Berlin in late June, has ...