While the latest variant, called Cicada, carries more mutations, it’s still part of the Omicron family that emerged in 2021.

A new COVID variant – dubbed Cicada – is being monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. First detected in 2024 in South Africa, Cicada, officially known as ...

BA.3.2, a heavily mutated new COVID-19 variant that may be better able to evade immunity from vaccines or prior infection, is now spreading in the United States. Although COVID infections are ...

The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed "cicada," comes amid broader uneasiness about vaccination rates among seniors — ...

The new variant has been detected in 25 states so far. d3sign via Getty Images A new variant of COVID-19 is spreading across the United States, according to public health officials. This version, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since the COVID-19 pandemic began back in late 2019, variants of the ...

A new variant of the virus that causes COVID is spreading in the U.S. The “Cicada” variant, officially known as BA.3.2, was first detected in South Africa in November 2024. But infection rates in the ...

While the world has largely moved past the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the infectious disease landscape in May 2026 is far from quiet. From the emergence of the 'Cicada' variant and a ...

COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 or "cicada" is not widely circulating in the U.S. yet, but based on trends in Europe, it may become more prominent. Most evidence comes from laboratory data, but there are no ...