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,

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.

Czechia's neighboring and nearby countries have all seen a spread of the new XEC Covid-19 strain, including Germany, Poland, and Slovenia.

The XEC Covid-19 variant, first identified in Germany, spreads rapidly across 27 countries, prompting urgent global health responses.

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.

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.

A new Covid variant, dubbed XEC, is spreading through Europe and could soon become the most dominant strain of the infection, scientists have warned.

The symptoms of the new Covid variant are similar to the previous ones which are cold or flu like symptoms but can also be:

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