Nowadays, researchers in applied sectors are highly motivated to propose and study new generalizations of the existing distributions to provide the best fit to data. To provide a close fit to data in numerous sectors, a series of new distributions have been proposed. In this study, we propose a new family called the new generalized-
X
(for short, “NG-
X
”) family of distributions. Based on the NG-
X
method, a novel modification of the Weibull model called the new generalized-Weibull (for short, “NG-Weibull”) distribution is studied. The heavy-tailed characteristics of the NG-
X
distributions are derived. The maximum likelihood estimators of the NG-
X
distributions are also obtained. Based on the special case (i.e., NG-Weibull) of the NG-
X
family, a simulation study is provided. The practical performance of the new NG-Weibull model is assessed by analyzing the COVID-19 data set. The fitting results of the NG-Weibull model are compared with three other competing models. Based on certain statistical measures, it is observed that the NG-Weibull model is the best competitive model.