For most of this year, the JN.1 variant of the coronavirus accounted for an overwhelming majority of COVID-19 cases. But now an offshoot variant called KP.2 is taking off. The variant, which made up ...
A new family of Covid-19 variant, FLiRT is spreading fast in the United States. This group of new Covid-19 variants belongs to the Omicron JN.1 lineage. These are the KP.2 and KP 1.1 mutations ...
What are the KP.1 and KP.2 strains? Are they more infectious and are current vaccines effective against newer variants of ...
A new set of COVID-19 variants, nicknamed FLiRT, has been detected in wastewater surveillance, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From April 14 through April 27 ...
From April 14 through April 27, the variant, labeled KP.2, makes up about 25% of the cases in the United States, according to the CDC. That makes it the new dominant variant in the country ...
Symptoms of FLiRT are similar to those of JN.1, such as fever, chills, cough, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, headache ...
On Wednesday, China’s Health authorities said that the variant is unlikely to trigger a new infection wave in the country. An ...
First detected in January, KP.2 - an Omicron offshoot - has been spreading globally and has become the dominant strain in the ...
Singapore’s weekly case count has nearly doubled with KP.1 and KP.2, the new ‘FLiRT’ variants, now accounting for over ...