The World Health Organization said it is monitoring another new COVID-19 variant with mutations that the agency fears could make it resistant to vaccines. The Mu variant, also known as B.1.621 ...

The states with the highest mu variant cases are California, Florida, Texas and New York. The mu variant was first detected in January 2021 in Colombia and has since spread to parts of South Korea ...

One of the newest variants of COVID-19, known as Mu, has spread to 42 countries, but early studies suggest that it is less easily transmitted than the dangerous Delta variant, which has triggered ...

The U.N. health organization warned the mu variant, also known as B.1.621, showed a similar resistance to Covid vaccines as the beta variant, but said more research would be needed to confirm this.

The mu variant is catching attention as COVID-19 cases are trending up in the U.S. and in many countries worldwide. So far, the variant has been detected in 39 countries.

"To date, the mu variant has been found approximately 247 times thus far in New York, based on sequences reported to GISAID. It is currently far behind the Delta variant identified in New York ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul along with health officials discussed the growing concern over the new mu variant of COVID-19 and whether New Yorkers need to be worried. Hochul says the mu variant currently ...

So far the mu variant has not been shown to spread as easily as the delta variant, which makes up 98% of all COVID strains in New Jersey. But more research needs to be done, health experts say.

The Mu variant of COVID-19 has been identified as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization (WHO) and has spread to 49 states in the U.S.

NEW VARIANT MEANS. AMANDA: JUST AS FLORIDA IS STARTING TO SEE A DECREASE IN NEW CASES OF COVID-19, THERE’S WORD OF A NEW VARIANT CALLED MU. IT CURRENTLY ACCOUNTS FOR ONLY .2% OF THE TOTAL CASES ...

Hochul says the mu variant currently accounts for less than .5% of COVID cases in New York. "We are in constant contact with the CDC," says Hochul. "They tell us right now it's not an immediate ...