From Stratus to Cicada, several variants are on the radar as COVID-19 activity rises, impacting how the virus spreads, its ...

The number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United Kingdom due to COVID-19 has significantly increased from ...

With public health officials in the United Kingdom announcing a new variant of COVID-19 was "out of control", the Canadian government acted swiftly to close the border to incoming flights from the U.K ...

The XFG variant is not a new, supercharged strain, but rather a recombinant variant that virologists have been tracking ...

The E484K coronavirus mutation occurs on the spike protein of the virus and is of “great concern” because it could impact vaccine efficacy, a professor of outbreak medicine who is part of a panel that ...

Another new strain of COVID-19 was detected in Nigeria The new strain is a separate lineage from the variant detected in Britain The new strain is Britain is 56% more contagious Health officials on ...

A new study provides early evidence that a Covid-19 vaccine might be effective against two new coronavirus strains first identified in South Africa and the UK, despite a concerning mutation. The two ...

Dr Lucy van Dorp from the UCL Genetics Institute and one of the authors of the study said that they have found that none of the mutations that they have seen were increasing the transmission rate of ...