A new COVID-19 variant called XEC has begun to spread in multiple regions worldwide and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that no specific symptoms are associated with the variant.
The variant first appeared in Berlin in late June and has spread across Germany, France, Denmark, and Netherlands, said a report from data integration specialist Mike Honey, citing the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data.
CDC spokeswoman Rosa Norman told The Epoch Times on Monday that the CDC is monitoring “the emergence of variants in the population,” including XEC, and that “specific cases cannot be associated with specific variants.”…