India today reported its first case of the new Covid-19 variant "XE" when a 50-year-old woman who reached Mumbai from South Africa was found infected with the strain, said India's Brihanmumbai ...

Health experts on Wednesday sought to downplay apprehensions centred around XE, a new coronavirus variant deemed more transmissible and said despite being around since January, the strain has not ...

In the UK, Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned that the "pandemic is not over" as the Government has published new guidance to support the next ...

The JN.1 variant is a sub-variant of Omicron BA.2.86. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, this variant has one or two extra mutations, which make it more infectious than other variants. The infection ...