The U.S. said Friday that it would restrict travel from South Africa and seven other countries amid fears that a newly-discovered COVID-19 variant could lead to a surge of worldwide cases and deaths.

The XFG variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 as continued to spread as the U.S. heads into peak Summer travel season. (Photo by I RYU/VCG via Getty Images) There’s another ...

As COVID-19 case numbers in Africa climb faster than all earlier peaks, new and faster spreading variants are fuelling the continent’s surging third wave. Cases have increased in Africa for six weeks ...

Covid has largely dropped out of the headlines, but the virus that causes it is still circulating. We ask what we should know about a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the state of the Covid pandemic in 2025 ...

Concerns about new Covid-19 variants are on the rise globally, with an increase in hospital patient cases reported in the UK and the US. The new variant has been called Stratus (also known as XFG) and ...

A new COVID-19 variant is climbing the ranks in the United States, becoming the third-most common strain of the summer. Variant XFG, colloquially known as "Stratus," was first detected in Southeast ...

A newer COVID variant called XFG is currently fueling cases of the virus across the country. Nicknamed “ Stratus,” this ...