In March, a new COVID strain called NB.1.8.1, nicknamed "Nimbus," was first detected in the United States. As of this week, it was reported to be in Connecticut. According to sequences shared with the ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to know about symptoms and vaccines.

The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments ...

The first case of the Omicron variant has been reported in the state of Connecticut. Health care experts believe there are more cases in Connecticut which have not yet been detected.

About four-fifths of all Connecticut municipalities now qualify for the state’s COVID-19 “red alert” designation, the governor’s office announced Thursday, as cases and hospitalizations ...

Connecticut’s first confirmed case of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 originally detected in South Africa involves a Fairfield County resident with no recent history of travel, state ...

Governor Ned Lamont reported the first death in Connecticut from the highly contagious COVID variant linked to the U.K.

Sixty-five percent of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns are now in the red alert level, the state's highest of four levels for COVID-19 infections, according to state data released Wednesday.

Coronavirus Update New coronavirus variant has experts on alert and WHO is urging countries to step up COVID surveillance SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 has 30 mutations in the spike protein compared ...

Public health officials are urging Connecticut residents to continue to wear masks and social distance as COVID-19 cases have flared up, particularly among younger people, and as variants of the ...