{"id":9855,"date":"2025-07-08T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:30:34","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-new-covid-19-variant-xfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/08\/what-to-know-about-the-new-covid-19-variant-xfg\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About the New COVID-19 Variant XFG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/know-covid-19-variant-xfg-162841506.html\">Time<\/a> With&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelmarketreport.com\/retail-strategies\/articles\/gen-z-and-millennials-are-driving-summer-2025-travel-trends\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"summer travel at an all-time high, opens in a new window\">summer travel at an all-time high<\/a>, new COVID-19 variants are brewing. Officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/25062025_xfg_ire.pdf?sfvrsn=fab54cd7_1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"added, opens in a new window\">added<\/a>&nbsp;another one to its list of variants under monitoring: XFG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>XFG is spreading most widely in Southeast Asia, although cases have been reported in 38 countries. In the U.K., it accounts for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/stratus-covid-variant-symptoms-signs-vaccine-uk-b2783498.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"30%, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30%<\/a>\u00a0of COVID-19 infections, and in the U.S.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"14%, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">14%<\/a>\u00a0of confirmed cases are XFG, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (These data are likely incomplete: the CDC notes that since less data are being reported, the variant trackers are not precise.) This designation is the least urgent of WHO\u2019s variant categories, which escalate from &#8220;variant under monitoring&#8221; to &#8220;variant of interest&#8221; to &#8220;variant of concern.&#8221; But while variants under monitoring pose a low immediate risk to people, they show signs of being able to grow and potentially spread more easily than other circulating variants that don&#8217;t get an official WHO designation. WHO is watching XFG closely, but it is so new that experts aren\u2019t sure yet what the health consequences of such growth might be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/know-covid-19-variant-xfg-162841506.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"pXthJ m\"><!-- pXthJ m --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time With&nbsp;summer travel at an all-time high, new COVID-19 variants are brewing. Officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) recently&nbsp;added&nbsp;another one to its list of variants under monitoring: XFG. XFG is spreading most widely in Southeast Asia, although cases have been reported in 38 countries. In the U.K., it accounts for\u00a030%\u00a0of COVID-19 infections, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9856,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions\/9856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}