A new Covid variant called Stratus or XFG is spreading across 38 countries. The World Health Organisation is monitoring this ...

A new strain of COVID-19, XFG, is spreading rapidly across the world, including in the United States. Anecdotally, people who ...

The new Covid-19 strain XFG is spreading rapidly, with 23 confirmed cases in Thailand, the Department of Medical Sciences ...

The XFG variant is a descendant of the Omicron sub-variant. According to a Lancet report, it was first detected in Canada.

The WHO has classified XFG or ‘Stratus’ as a variant under monitoring. It may well become the dominant variant globally very ...

According to WHO, globally, this variant contributed to 23 per cent of global COVID-19 cases as of last month.

A new variant of Covid-19 (also known as Coronavirus) emerged at the start of the year, and already makes up more than 30% of ...

A new, highly contagious Covid-19 strain has emerged globally as thousands of Australians prepare to travel overseas.

It is growing globally. Samples of XFG sent to the global database of genetic virus sequences jumped from 7% of all COVID-19 samples in May 2025 to nearly 23% a few weeks later, according to WHO.

XFG is part of the Omicron family, of which there are now more than 1,000 known subvariants, but it’s rising rapidly in ...

CASES of a new “Frankenstein” Covid variant – feared to be super contagious – have quadrupled in a matter of weeks, officials ...

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