As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, a new variant known as the Covid XEC variant is starting to spread rapidly across Europe, North America, and parts of Asia. First identified in Germany in June,

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against it

XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite rapidly” across Europe, North America and Asia, according to Covid data analyst Mike Honey. Slovenia had high rates of infection with this variant in August as over 10 per cent of Covid case samples from the country contained XEC.

Experts are keeping a close eye on the spread of a new Coronavirus variant that is spreading in the US, Europe, and has also reached the UK. Data compiled by the Reach Data Unit shows what parts of the country are most affected by the new Covid -19 variant as well as other variants.

There’s a new coronavirus subvariant catching the attention of global doctors and researchers: it’s being called “XEC.” Experts suspect this new strain of the coronavirus could become the dominant variant in a matter of months.

XEC’s prevalence is lower in the US and Canada and reached a high of 5.96% in European cases on 19 August. Slovenia had high rates of infection with the variant in August with over 10 per cent of samples from the country containing XEC.

The XEC variant, which was first discovered in Germany back in June, has now been found in 15 countries across three continents and is likely to spread across the globe