The variant, which first appeared in Berlin in late June, has increasingly seen hundreds of cases in Germany, France, Denmark and Netherlands, according to a report by Australia-based data integration specialist Mike Honey.

A newly detected Covid variant is sweeping through Europe, labelled as "more contagious" than some of the earlier strains. Known as XEC, which has evolved from Omicron, could soon be the predominant strain throughout Europe, experts claim.

People have started catching a new Covid variant that could soon take off and become the dominant type, BBC reports citing scientists. Identified in Germany, […]